Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller - a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land (1885) (14770817994)

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Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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There once dwelt a race in that part of the world, I am told, who hadEgyptian characteristics, but whose history was lost. You should know moreabout such things than I. But to my story.
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ou I—* XUi <<: THE OLD PRIESTS TALE OF ATLANTIS. 17I Solon, according to Plato, once held a conversation with an ancient Egyp-tian priest concerning the early history of the world. This learned priest of Sais related to Solon that nine thousand years before,there lay in the Atlantic Ocean an island or continent larger than both Asiaand Africa. The shores of this continent were near those of the African coaston one side, and stretched an immense distance through the Atlantic, and com-municated with mysterious islands and unknown lands. Its inhabitants onceinvaded Greece and were repelled. This land was called Atlantis, and its heroeswere known as the Sea Kings of Atlantis. In this land there arose at first a powerful dynasty of kings. They con-quered Libya as far as Egypt, and were ambitious of the conquest of Europe. This royal race were sons of gods and of the daughters of the earth-borninhabitants of the ocean land. There were ten kings, who had ten kingdoms,and thus divided