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When they appeared at the
Court of Egypt, she would consider them.
So at length only one suitor was left, the man whom she knew well
Pharaoh and his councillors desired that she should take as husband.
This was Amathel, the Prince of Kesh, whose father, an aged king, ruled
at Napata, a great city far to the south, situated in a land that was
called an island because the river Nile embraced it in its two arms.
It was said that after Egypt this country was the richest in the whole
world, for there gold was so plentiful that men thought it of less value
than copper and iron; also there were mines in which beautiful stones
were found, and the soil grew corn in abundance.
Moreover, once in the far past, a race of Pharaohs sprung from this city
of Napata, had sat on the throne of Egypt, until at length the people of
Egypt, headed by the priests, had risen and overthrown them because
they were foreigners and had introduced Nubian customs into the land.
Therefore it was decreed by an unalterable law that none of their race
should ever again wear the Double Crown.


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