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Updated: May 27, 2025
Ne-ne-hofra grew up under my eyes, and confided every incident of her life to me; among others, that she loved the son of her father's gardener, Barbec by name. "Oraetes's frown, strangely enough, began to dissipate. "'With that love in her heart, O king, she came to you; of that love she is dying. "'Where is the gardener's son now? asked Oraetes. "'In Essouan.
"'O Oraetes, I am astonished that one so wise and great should not know how to cure a sorrow like this. "'Tell me a cure, said the king. "Three times the colchyte kissed the floor, and then he replied, knowing the dead could not hear him, 'At Essouan lives Ne-ne-hofra, beautiful as Athor the beautiful. Send for her.
"At twelve, Ne-ne-hofra was the delight of Essouan; at sixteen, the fame of her beauty was universal; at twenty, there was never a day which did not bring to her door princes of the desert on swift camels, and lords of Egypt in gilded barges; and, going away disconsolate, they reported everywhere, 'I have seen her, and she is not a woman, but Athor herself."
I swear it, by the genii of Amente! by the eye of Osiris, I swear it! Speak! he cried, passionate as a lover, authoritative as a king. "'Hear, then, she said. 'There is an anchorite, the oldest and holiest of his class, in a cave near Essouan. His name is Menopha. He was my teacher and guardian.
"The king went out and gave two orders. To one oeris he said, 'Go to Essouan and bring hither a youth named Barbec.
The organic remains were all recent; not a trace of an extinct fossil occurred, but an abundance of the residues of burnt bricks and pottery. In their examination from Essouan to Cairo, the French estimated the mud deposit to be five inches for each century. From an examination of the results at Heliopolis, Mr. Horner makes it 3·18 inches.
Where the Nile breaks through the mountain gate at Essouan, it is observed that its waters begin to rise about the end of the month of May, and in eight or nine weeks the inundation is at its height.
"Perfect lives are the treasures of God; of great days he wears them on the ring-finger of his heart hand." "Ne-ne-hofra dwelt in a house close by Essouan, yet closer to the first cataract so close, indeed, that the sound of the eternal battle waged there between river and rocks was of the place a part.
Commencing at the Cataract of Essouan, at the sacred island of Philæ, on which to this day here and there the solitary palm-tree looks down, it reached to the Mediterranean Sea, from 24° 3´ N. to 31° 37´ N. The river runs in a valley, bounded on one side by the eastern and on the other by the Libyan chain of mountains, and of which the average breadth is about seven miles, the arable land, however, not averaging more than five and a half.
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