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LECTURE V.

now in the Soane Museum. Other copies of it are known to us. Perhaps the most interesting part of this text is the scene which recognizes men of foreign and hostile races, the Tamehu, the Aamu, and the Negroes, men of the Red land (Tesheret) as well as those of the Black land (Kamit, Egypt), as created and protected by the gods of Egypt. M. Léfébure has translated this text, and part of his translation has already appeared in the "Records of the Past."[1]

  1. See also his paper on "Les quatie races au Jugement Dernier," in the fourth volume of the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Literature.