le palace with chambers for the pharaoh, for his family and
servants, with a dining-room, bed-chamber and bath, with chapels
consecrated to various gods, and finally with a well at the bottom of
which was a small chamber where the mummy of the sovereign would rest
for the ages.

By the light of brilliant torches the walls of all the rooms appeared
covered with prayers, and also with pictures which represented every
occupation and amusement of the departed: hunting, the building of
temples, the cutting of canals, triumphal entries, solemnities in honor
of the gods, battles of troops with their enemies, the labors of
people.

And those were not sufficient: the chambers were not only fitted with
furniture, vessels, chariots, weapons, flowers, meat, bread, and wine,
but they were furnished also with a multitude of statues. There were
various portraits of Ramses XII, his priests, ministers, women,
warriors, and slaves; for the sovereign could not dispense in the other
world any more than in this with costly vessels, exquisite food and
faithful servants.

When the funeral car halted at the entrance the priests drew forth from
its sarcophagus the mummy of the pharaoh, and placed it on the earth
resting against the cliff with its shoulder. Then Ramses XIII burned
incense before the remains of his father, while Queen Niort's embraced
the mummy by the neck, and said with weeping,

"I am thy sister, Niort's, thy wife; do not desert me, Thou great one!
Dost Thou desire really, my good father, that I should go? But if I go
Thou wilt be alone, and will any one be with thee?"

Now the high priest Herhor burned incense before the mummy, and Mefres
poured out wine, saying,

"To thy second self we offer this, O Osiris-Mer-Amen-Ramses, sovereign
of Upper and Lower Egypt, whose voice in the presence of the great god
is truthful."

Then the wailers and the chorus of priests were heard:

Chorus I. "Complain, complain, weep, weep, weep, without ceasing, as
loudly as ever ye are able."

Wailers. "O worthy traveler, who turnest thy steps to the land of
eternity, how quickly they are tearing thee from us."

Chorus II. "How beautiful is that which is happening to him! Since
Khonsu of Thebes was loved by him greatly, the god has permitted the
sovereign to reach that west, the world of the generations of his
servants."

Wailers. "O Thou who hast been attended by so many servitors, Thou art
now in the laud ruled by loneliness. Thou wh