Excerpt from Egypt, Africa, and Arabia, the World's Story, Vol. 3: A History of the World in Story Song and Art Notes for the Nile, by Hardwicke D. Rawnsley published in the United States by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York; in Great Britain by William Heine mann, London. Egyptian Tales; translated from the Papyri, by W. M. Flinders Petrie: published in the United States by Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York; in Great Britain by Methuen Company, Ltd., London. Egypt and Iceland in the Year 1874, by Bayard Taylor: published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Ten Years' Digging in Egypt, by W. M. Flinders Petrie: published by The Religious Tract Society, London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.