in every matter submitted for his decision.

I am indebted to Miss Bradbury for kindly supplying, in the midst of much other literary work for the Egypt Exploration Fund, the translation of the chapter on the gods, and also of the earlier parts of some of the first chapters. She has, moreover, helped me in my own share of the work with many suggestions and hints, which her intimate connection with the late Miss Amelia B. Edwards fully qualified her to give.

As in the original there is a lack of uniformity in the transcription and accentuation of Arabic names, I have ventured to alter them in several cases to the form most familiar to English readers.

The spelling of the ancient Egyptian words has, at Professor Maspero's request, been retained throughout, with the exception that the French ou has been invariably represented by û, e.g. Khnoumou by Khnûmû.

By an act of international courtesy, the director of the Imprimerie Nationale has allowed the beautifully cut hieroglyphic and cuneiform type used in the original to be employed in the English edition, and I take advantage of this opportunity to express to him our thanks and appreciation of his graceful act.

M. L. McClure.

List of Illustrations

003.jpg Chapter One

006.jpg The Mouth of The Nile Previous to The Formation Of the Delta.

009.jpg A Line of Laden Camels Emerges from A Hollow

010.jpg

011.jpg Part of Gebel Shêkh HerÎdi

012.jpg The Hill of Kasr Es-sayyad

014.jpg Entrance to the First Cataract

015.jpg Entrance to Nubia

016.jpg League Beyond League, the Hills Stretch on

018.jpg The Entrance to The First Cataract

020.jpg Entrance to the Second Catakact

022.jpg An Attempt to Represent the Egyptian Universe

023.jpg Footnotes With Graphics

027.jpg South Africa and the Sources of The Nile

031.jpg During the Inundation

034.jpg Assiout

036.jpg Entrance of the MudÎriyeh Of AsyÛt

037.jpg Forest of Date Palms

040.jpg Acacias at the Entrance to a Garden Outside EkhmÎm

041.jpg She-ass and Her Foal

042.jpg The UrÆus of Egypt

044.jpg The Ibis of Egypt

045.jpg The Mormyrus Oxyrhynchus

046.jpg Ahaka

047.jpg Two Fishermen Carrying a Latus

048.jpg The Nile God

049.jpg The Shrine of The Nile at Biggeh

051.jpg Nile Gods from the Temple of Seti I. At Abydos

055.jpg Libyan Mountains

059.jpg The Noble Type of Egyptian

060.jpg Head of a Tileban Mummy

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