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Title: The Century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905 Ingraham, Prentiss, 1843-1904
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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■^^^ FELLAH WOMAN AND HEAD OF SECOND HYKSOS STATUE. covery followed fast upon discovery. The feetand plinth of a second sitting figure, sculp-tured in the same granite and upon the samescale, were found within a few yards of thefirst. Next came two enormous fragments ofthis second colossus, consisting of the legs andthrone in one piece, and part of the trunk inanother. Desperate eftbrts were now made tofind the trunk of the first and the head of thesecond statue. At last, after days of suspense,when further search seemed well-nigh hope-less, the international cable flashed a messageof good news from Zagazig to London :Second Hyksos head, nearly perfect.—Naville. M. Naville has since then described thefinding of this head as the most exciting eventof his five winters experience in the Delta. Itwas already late in the afternoon when heheard a loud cry of ■ Ras: Rds. (Thehead! The head! ) He ran to the spot, andthere, midwav between the base and torso of
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BUBASTIS: AN HISTORICAL STUDY. 337 the last found colossus, on the shelving bankof a deep pool, he saw the top of a huge headjust visible above the surface. The men werehauling, shouting, damming back the water,and flinging out great handfuls of the mud inwhich the face was embedded. Was it perfect ?Or was it broken, like its fellow ? M. Navilleand Count dHulst waded in, feeling eagerlyunder the water, and passing their hands underthe yet half-buried features. Finding the end ofthe nose fractured, M. Naville had, as he after-wards confessed, an instant of despair ; buthis despair the next moment became exultationon finding the face well-nigh perfect. Then thedusk rapidly closed in, and they left their treas-ure in the water, only to haul it out next morning,high and dry, and photograph it on the spot. Now, a pair of colossal figures stationedjust outside the first hall of a temple, and atso short a distance apart, must have beenseated on either side of the entrance. When,therefore, by

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