, ḥem, in harmony with the other evidence produced by W. Max Müller (Recueil, vol. IX). The picture of it does not enable one to determine its species. The pictures at Bubastis of the

seem to indicate the Synodontis, but a picture found by Petrie (Medum, pl. 12) shows an immense fish which has been identified with the Latus or Perca Nilotica. This being of the Acanthopterygian family is of course a very formidable warrior, like our own small perch, which, as Mr. Ward says, “does not yield its life without endangering the person of its captor, for the formidable rows of spinous rays belonging to the first dorsal fin have wounded the hands of many an incautious angler.”

[PLATE XLII].

[PLATE XLIII].

CHAPTER CXXXVIIA.

Chapter whereby a Light is kindled([1]) for a person.

Oh Light! let the Light be kindled for thy Ka, O Osiris Chentamenta. Let the Light be kindled for the Night which followeth the Day: the Eye of Horus which riseth at thy temple([2]): which riseth up([3]) over thee and which gathereth upon thy brow; which granteth thee its protection and overthroweth thine enemies.

Undefiledly (bis) and successfully (bis):