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The adze is the favourite tool of the Egyptian carpenter. He uses it to cut Fig. -The Carpenter's up his wood, to shape his Adze. planks, to cut and plane them; in his hands it is worth haI£-a-dozen different tools in those of any foreign carpenter. A clicking of shuttles, blended with the chattering of women, points to a room full of spinners and weavers in active work. One winds and twists the flax between her fingers, another smooths the thread, a third dresses it; two others, crouched on each side of a low loom fastened to the ground, are weaving a piece of linen (Fig.
Raakheperk(l. , Ran- serma-sotf'penra. 42 PHARAOH. but by a hawk placed over the golden sign, which designates the living Horus, Horus the conqueror. The comparison between the king and the Sun is then continued. Rameses II. thus boasts of being the golden hawk, rich in years, and very strong. In short, the complete designation of the Pharaohs includes four parts, always arranged in the same order: two,. which may be called the hawks' names, the names of Horus, and two which bear the royal names surrounded by a cartouche.
The most nume- THEBES AND 'I'HE POPULAR LIFE. 15 rous families are, usually, but the remnants of still larger numbers. But, at least, those who sUl'vive are endowed with good health that resists every shock. The Egyptian people, weeded, so to speak, by this natural operation, contains only vigorous indi viduals, ofrobust, sturdy beauty, who can endure pain and fatigue. of those infirm, crooked, and illmade creatures who swarm in other countries: ophthalmia is the only malady it has to dread. The action of the fine sand, with which the atmosphere is saturated, the insupportable glare of light, the influence of the serene nights and of the fogs which rise in the mornings, produce, amongst the labourers and city workmen, Fig.