H. Rider Haggard

Queen of the Dawn: a Love Tale of Old Egypt H. Rider Haggard

Queen of theD awn CHAPTER I THE DREAM OF RIMA THERE was war in Egypt andE gypt was rent in two. At Memphis in the north, at Tanis, and in all the rich lands of theD elta where by many mouths theN ile flows down to the sea, a usurping race held power, whose forefathers, generations before, had descended upon Egypt like a flood, destroyed its temples and deposed its gods, possessing themselves of the wealth of the land. At Thebes in the south the descendants of the ancient Pharaohs still ruled precariously, again and again attempting to drive out the fierce Semitic orB edouin kings, named theS hepherds, whose banners flew from the walls of all the northern cities. They failed because they were too weak, indeed the hour of their final victory was yet far away and of it our tale does not tell. Nefra the Princess, she who was named theB eautiful and afterwards was known as Uniter of Lands, was the only child of one of these Theban A ntefs, Kheperra, born of his Queen, Rima, daughter of Ditanah, the King of Babylon, who had given her to him in marriage to strengthen him in his struggle against theS hepherds, also called the A ati or Plaguebearers. Nefra was the first and only child of this marriage, for shortly after she was born Kheperra the King, her father, with all the host that he could gather, went down Nile to fight the A ati who marched to meet him from Tanis and fromM
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