The Cat of Bubastes:Enslaved by a conquering army, the young
prince Amuba finds friendship in the house of an Egyptian
high priest, where he acts as a companion to the priest's son
Chebron. The entire household plunges into peril when
Chebron accidentally kills the sacred cat of the great temple
at Bubastes--a riot ensues, and the boys are forced to flee.
Set in 1250 b.c., the time of Moses, this thrilling adventure
story offers an evocative look at the ancient Egyptian world.
Skillfully interwoven in the narrative thread are fascinating,
accurate details about Egyptian religion and geography, the
methods by which the Nile was used for irrigation, and how
the Egyptians made war and were prepared for burial. (The
Cat of Bubastes by GA Henty: J HEN)
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MY DEAR LADS,
Thanks to the care with which the Egyptians depicted
upon the walls of their sepulchres the minutest doings of
their daily life, to the dryness of the climate which has
preserved these records uninjured for so many thousand years,
and to the indefatigable labour of modern investigators, we
know far more of the manners and customs of the Egyptians,
of their methods of work, their sports and amusements, their
public festivals, and domestic life, than we do of those of
peoples comparatively modern. My object in the present
story has been to give you as lively a picture as possible of
that life, drawn from the bulky pages of Sir J. Gardner
Wilkinson and other writers on the same subject. I have
laid the scene in the time of Thotmes III., one of the great
est of the Egyptian monarchs, being surpassed only in glory
and the extent of his conquests by Rameses the Great. It
is certain that Thotmes carried the arms of Egypt to the
shores of the Caspian, and a people named the Rebu, with
fair hair and blue eyes, were among those depicted in the
Egyptian sculptures as being conquered and made tributary.
It is open to discussion whether the Exodus of the Jews
from Egypt took place in the reign of Thotmes or many
years subsequently, some authors assigning it to the time
of Rameses. Without attempting to enter into this much
discussed question, I have assumed that the Israelites were
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still in Egypt at the time of Thotmes, and by introducing
Moses just at the time he began to take up the cause of the
people to whom he belonged, I leave it to be inferred that
the Exodus took place some forty years later. I wish you
to understand, however, that you are not to accept this date
as being absolutely correct. Opinions differ widely upon it;
and as no allusion whatever has been discovered either to
the Exodus, or to any of the events which preceded it,
among the records of Egypt, there is nothing to fix the
date as occurring during the reign of any one among the
long line of Egyptian kings. The term Pharaoh used in
the Bible throws no light upon the subject, as Pharaoh
simply means king, and the name of no monarch bearing
that appellation is to be found on the Egyptian monuments.
I have in no way exaggerated the consequences
arising from the slaying of the sacred cat, as the accidental
killing of any cat whatever was an offense punished
by death throughout the history of Egypt down to the time
of the Roman connection with that country.
Yours sincerely,
G. A. HENTY.
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