I must confess, however unwillingly, that some priests of the true faith--among them your grandfather, and mine--supported the daring usurper who clung faithfully to the old traditions.

Not less than a hundred generations of my ancestors, and of yours, and of many other priestly families, have lived and died here by the banks of the Nile--of Rameses race we have seen ten, and only know of them that they descend from strangers, from the caste of Amu! He is like all the Semitic race; they love to wander, they call us ploughmen,--[The word Fellah (pl.Fellahin) means ploughman]--and laugh to scorn the sober regularity with which we, tilling the dark soil, live through our lives to a tardy death, in honest labor both of mind and body.

They sweep round on foraying excursions, ride the salt waves in ships, and know no loved and fixed home; they settle down wherever they are tempted by rapine, and when there is nothing more to be got they build a house in another spot.

Such was Seti, such is Rameses! For a year he will stop in Thebes, then he must set out for wars in strange lands.

He does not know how to yield piously, or to take advice of wise counsellors, and he will not learn.
And such as the father is, so are the children! Think of the criminal behavior of Bent-Anat!" "I said the kings liked foreigners.