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292 AROUND THE WOELD.
" Che-ops-see., the great king of the world, died in Thebes. Embalmed
by the priests, he was placed, after a time, in this pyramid, as a
mark of honor for having conceived and planned a monument serA'ing as
the savior of his subjects. Finally, the sarcophagus removed, he was
godded, or deified, Ramses the First ; and the Sphinx, that calm, weird,
unreadable face, now mutilated by a degenerate people, was designed to
hand the outlines of his physiognomy down to posterity. I must leave.
Stranger from a foreign country, do weU the work appointed you, that,
when ashes and sands claim their own, you' may be prepared for the
fellowship of those ancient spirits of whom you seek counsel."
We have reported, tliis Egyptian spirit's ideas and words
as best we could. Take them for what they are worth, making
history, hieroglyph, and reason the umpire of decision.
Powhatan, the good Indian spirit, came, and, noting the
waning of the western sun as a symbol of the fading-away
of the aboriginal tribes before a merciless civilization, said
they went down like setting stars, to rise into the better conditions
of the Morning Land.