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"Is she caught?" inquired the prince. "She is caught, but they have sent her to the eastern colony, because leprosy attacked her." "O gods!" whispered Ramses. "But may it not threaten me?" "Be calm, lord; if it had infected thee Thou wouldst be leprous this moment." The prince felt a chill in every member.
And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks and herds, even very much cattle." They started from Ramses and Succoth. The position of Ramses has been identified; that of Succoth is more questionable.
The denser cloud signifies places where the columns are struggling; the thinner, where there are breaks in the columns. After some minutes of satanic uproar the heir sees that the dust on his left wing is bending back very slowly. "Strengthen the left wing!" shouts Ramses.
North of Beyrout it struck eastward through the gorge of the Nahr el-Kelb, and took the city of Kumidi. Then it made its way by Shenir or Hermon to Hamath, which surrendered, and from thence still northward to "the plain" of Aleppo. In the south of Palestine, in what was afterwards the territory of Judah, Ramses made yet another campaign.
Schiaparelli, has lately discovered and excavated some very fine tombs of the XIXth and XXth Dynasties. The best is that of Queen Nefertari, one of the wives of Ramses II. The colouring of the reliefs upon these walls is extraordinarily bright, and the portraits of the queen, who has a very beautiful face, with aquiline nose, are wonderfully preserved.
"Turn me out if a lie has gone from my lips. But if I have spoken truth, turn out that woman with her brat and give me her palace. I wish and deserve to be first in thy household. She deceives thee, reviles thee. But, I for thy sake, have deserted my goddess and exposed myself to her vengeance." "Give me proofs and the palace will be thine. No, that is false!" said Ramses.
Ramses took farewell of the army and galloped towards Memphis; but his worthiness Herhor, amid joyous shouts, took a seat in his litter and commanded also to go in advance of the marching divisions. When they had gone so far that single voices were merged into one immense murmur, like the sound of a cataract, the minister, bending toward the secretary, asked of him,
"Whence hast Thou come, that thy main forces are in front of our army?" "I knew how incompetently the division was marching from Memphis, when the heir was concentrating his regiments near Pi-Bailos, and for sport I wished to capture you young lords. To my misfortune the heir was here and spoiled my plans. Act that way always, Ramses, of course in presence of real enemies."
We only wish to save the state." "In that case what should Ramses XIII do?" "What he will do I know not. But I know what his father did," answered Herhor. "Ramses XII began to govern in the same impetuous and tyrannical fashion, but when money failed him, and his most zealous adherents began to despise him, he turned to the gods.
It was natural, therefore, at the beginning of hieroglyphic decipherment that the Greek accounts should be accepted in full, and that Ramses II. should have been regarded as the greatest of Egyptian conquerors. But further study soon showed that, in this respect at least, his reputation had little to support it.
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