cordance with
local agreement.

Among these races were still to be found descendants of the Mazaiu and
Uauaiu, who in days gone by had opposed the advance of the victorious
Egyptians: the name of the Uauaiu was, indeed, used as a generic term to
distinguish all those tribes which frequented the mountains between the
Nile and the Red Sea,* but the wave of conquest had passed far beyond
the boundaries reached in early campaigns, and had brought the Egyptians
into contact with nations with whom they had been in only indirect
commercial relations in former times.

* The Annals of Thutmosis III. mention the tribute of Puanit
for the peoples of the coast, the tribute of Uauait for the
peoples of the mountain between the Nile and the sea, the
tribute of Kush for the peoples of the south, or Ganbatiu.

[Illustration: 338.jpg ARRIVAL OF AN ETHIOPIAN QUEEN BRINGING TRIBUTE TO
THE VICEROY OF KUSII]

Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Insinger.

Some of these were light-coloured men of a type similar to that of the
modern Abyssinians or Gallas: they had the same haughty and imperious
carriage, the same well-developed and powerful frames, and the same love
of fighting. Most of the remaining tribes were of black blood, and such
of them as we see depicted on the monuments resemble closely the negroes
inhabiting Central Africa at the present day.

[Illustration: 339.jpg TYPICAL GALLA WOMAN]

They have the same elongated skull, the low prominent forehead, hollow
temples, short flattened nose, thick lips, broad shoulders, and salient
breast, the latter contrasting sharply with the undeveloped appearance
of the lower part of the body, which terminates in thin legs almost
devoid of calves. Egyptian civilization had already penetrated among
these tribes, and, as far as dress and demeanour were concerned, their
chiefs differed in no way from the great lords who formed the escort
of the Pharaoh. We see these provincial dignitaries represented in the
white robe and petticoat of starched, pleated, and gauffered linen;
an innate taste for bright colours, even in those early times, being
betrayed by the red or yellow scarf in which they wrapped themselves,
passing it over one shoulder and round the waist, whence the ends
depended and formed a kind of apron. A panther's skin covered the back,
and one or two ostrich-feathers waved from the top of the head or
were fastened on one side to the fillet conf