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The next ht upon the desert, the green water of the harbour, and the gray and yelloalls of the border fortress

Three worlds held out their hands to one another on this water way surrounded by the barren wilderness--Egypt, Hellas, and Seed the processions of priests, ith iods, consecrated vessels, and caskets of relics, took their places at the edge of the harbour The tawny and black, half-naked soldiers ith high shields, lances, battle-axes and bows, gathered around strangely shaped standards, joined the of drums and blare of trued a vast yptians and dark-skinned Africans

On the other side of the canal the Asiatics wereto and fro The best places for spectators had been assigned to the petty kings and princes of tribes, Phoenician and Syriantheed owners of herds and seafarers froan, fresh parties of bearded sons of the desert, in floating white bernouse,the other Asiatics

The centre was occupied by the Greeks The appearance of every individual showed that they were rulers of the land, and that they deserved to be How free and bold was their bearing! how brightly and joyously sparkled the eyes of these ht-hued flowers adorned locks anointed for the festivals! Strong and slender, they were conspicuous in their stately grace ayptians, unbridled in their jests and jeers, and the excitable Asiatics

Now the blare of truhtning and heavy peals of thunder; the Egyptian priests sang a hy and Goddess Queen, and the aristocratic priestesses of the deity tinkled the brass rings on the sistruan a polyphonous hymn, and amid its full, melodious notes, which rose above the enthusiastic shouts of "Hail!" fro Ptole Seated on golden thrones borne on the broad shoulders of gigantic black Ethiopians, and shaded by lofty canopies, both were raised above the croho bearers of the large round ostrich-feather fans which protected them from the sunbeams were followed in ranks by the nitaries, the dark and fair-haired bands of the guards of Grecian youths and boys, as well as divisions of the picked corps of the Hetairoi, Diadochi, and Epigoni, in beautiful plain Macedonian armour