Produced by Geetu Melwani, Bruce Albrecht and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net PEEPS AT MANY LANDS ANCIENT EGYPT [Illustration: PLATE 1. AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY.] PEEPS AT MANY LANDS ANCIENT EGYPT BY REV. JAMES BAIKIE, F.R.A.S. AUTHOR OF "PEEPS AT THE HEAVENS," "THE STORY OF THE PHARAOHS," "THE SEA KINGS OF CRETE," ETC. WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, THOSE IN COLOUR BEING BY CONSTANCE N. BAIKIE A. & C. BLACK, LTD. 4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1916 * * * * * _First published October 1912_ _Reprinted January and April 1916_ AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. Macmillan Building, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA _Printed in Great Britain._ * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. A LAND OF OLD RENOWN 1 II. A DAY IN THEBES 6 III. A DAY IN THEBES (_continued_) 11 IV. PHARAOH AT HOME 17 V. THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER 24 VI. CHILD-LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT 33 VII. SOME FAIRY-TALES OF LONG AGO 41 VIII. SOME FAIRY-TALES OF LONG AGO (_continued_) 47 IX. EXPLORING THE SOUDAN 54 X. A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 59 XI. EGYPTIAN BOOKS 66 XII. TEMPLES AND TOMBS 72 XIII. AN EGYPTIAN'S HEAVEN 82 * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE *1. AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY, 1500 B.C. _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 2. THE GODDESS ISIS DANDLING THE KING 9 3. THE GREAT GATE OF THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR, WITH OBELISK 16 *4. RAMSES II. IN HIS WAR-CHARIOT--SARDINIAN GUARDSMEN ON FOOT 25 *5. ZAZAMANKH AND THE LOST CORONET 32 6. GRANITE STATUE OF RAMSES II. 35 7. NAVE OF THE TEMPLE AT KARNAK 38 *8. "AND THE GOOSE STOOD UP AND CACKLED" 41 *9. AN EGYPTIAN COUNTRY HOUSE 48 10. STATUES OF KING AMENHOTEP III. 51 11. THE SPHINX AND THE SECOND PYRAMID 54 *12. A DESERT POSTMAN 57