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Title: The boys' and girls' Herodotus; being parts of the history of Herodotus
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Herodotus White, John S. (John Stuart), 1847-1922, ed
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o well pleased with thisservice that it never hurts the trochilus. With some of the Egyp-tians crocodiles are sacred ; with others not, but they treat them asenemies. Those who dwell about Thebes, and Lake Mceris con- CUSTOMS OF THE EGYPTIANS. 99 sider them to be very sacred ; and they each of them train up acrocodile, which is taught to be quite tame ; and put crystal andgold ear-rings into their ears, and bracelets on their fore paws;they give them appointed and sacred food, and treat them as wellas possible while alive, and when dead they embalm them, andbury them in sacred vaults. But the people who dwell about thecity of Elephantine eat them, not considering them sacred. Theyare not called crocodiles by the Egyptians, but champsae ; thelonians gave them the name of crocodiles, because they thoughtthey resembled lizards, which are also so called, and which arefound in the hedges of their country. The modes of taking thecrocodile are many and various, but I shall only describe that
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SPEARING THE CROCODILE. which seems to me most worthy of relation. When the fishermanhas baited a hook with the chine of a pig, he lets it down into themiddle of the river, and holding a young live pig on the brink ofthe river, beats it ; the crocodile, hearing the noise, goes in itsdirection, and meeting with the chine, swallows it, and the mendraw it to land ; when it is drawn out on shore, the sportsman firstof all plasters its eyes with mud, after which he manages it veryeasily; but until he has done this, he has a great deal of trouble.The hippopotamus is esteemed sacred in the district of Papremis, butnot so by the rest of the Egyptians. It is a quadruped, cloven-footed, with the hoofs of an ox, snub-nosed, has the mane of ahorse, projecting tusks, and the tail and neigh of a horse. In size lOO HERODOTUS. he is equal to a very large ox : his hide is so thick that spear-handles are made of it when dry. Otters are also met with in theriver, which are deemed sacred ; and amongst fi

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