CHAPTER X.
The Nineteenth Dynasty (circa 1400-1200 B.C.) Rameses the Great.
The peace of Egypt was not disturbed, although
the direct succession again failed at
the death of Horus. It is more than doubtful
whether the soldier Rameses who now came to
the front was of the royal line at all. He
married his son Seti to a princess of the house
of Pharaoh, and associated him with himself in
the government. After a brief reign, of which
next to nothing is recorded, he died, and left
the crown to Seti. The wife of this sovereign
was regarded with reverence as the descendant
of the ancient line; and her claim to remembrance
in after times was not so much that she
was the wife of Seti, as that she was mother of
Rameses II., in whose person the direct line was
again restored. The child was associated with
his father from a very early age, so that at any
