CAIRO TO KISUMU is now in the British Museum. It is known as the Book of the Dead and contains two hundred chapters. It is written in hieroglyphics, but many of the passages have been translated. It sets forth that every man was be¬ lieved to consist of seven different parts of which the actual body was only one and the other parts related to the soul and its transmigration. Upon the preservation of the body depended the bringing together of these seven parts in the after life. On this account corpses were mummified, and for the same reason they were hidden away in tombs under the desert and in the great Pyramids, which their owners believed would be inaccessible to the men of the future.

This Book of the Dead contains, also, some of the Egyp¬ tian ideals of right living, reminding one of the Psalm which, in Rouse’s version, begins: That man hath perfect blessedness Who walketh not astray In counsel of ungodly men.

Nor stands in sinner’s way. Nor sitteth in the scorner’s chair.

But placeth his delight Upon God’s law, and meditates On that law day and night.

The Book of the Dead reads: I am not a plunderer; nor a niggard; nor the cause of others’ tears.

I am not unchaste; nor hot in speech. I am not fraudulent. I do not take away the cakes of a child, or profane the gods of my locality.

There is no doubt that the Egyptians believed in the immortality of the soul. They thought man would live again, and gave the soul the name of Bai, representing it in the form of a human-headed hawk. They had their 102