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Excerpt from Egypt, and Some Account of the Book of the Dead: Read Before the Hamilton Association, January 8th, 1891 Amongst trials which our traveller in the other world under goes, he has to pass through a veritable valley of the shadow of death, for it is all abyss, utter darkness, sheer perplexity. He is also tried by fire, which the artist represents pictorially, but has compensation by a sojourn in the Egyptian Elysian fields, where he ploughs and sows and reaps, and through which runs a canal, the limit Of which cannot be stated, and in which are fish and no serpents. The papyrus ends with a picture Of Hathor, a personifica tion Of the sky, in the' form of a. Hippopotamus. On her head she holds the solar disk, and in her left hand she holds the symbol of life. 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.