The high officials in his train bowed down nearly to the ground, allowing their arms to hang loosely at their sides.

The Persians, crossing their hands on their breasts, cast themselves on the earth before the heir to the Egyptian throne.

When the first formalities were over, Bartja, according to the custom of his native country, but greatly to the astonishment of the populace, who were totally unaccustomed to such a sight, kissed the sallow cheek of the Egyptian prince; who shuddered at the touch of a stranger's unclean lips, then took his way to the litters waiting to convey him and his escort to the dwelling designed for them by the king, in the palace at Sais.
A portion of the crowd streamed after the strangers, but the larger number remained at their places, knowing that many a new and wonderful sight yet awaited them.
"Are you going to run after those dressed-up monkeys and children of Typhon, too ?" asked an angry priest of his neighbor, a respectable tailor of Sais.

"I tell you, Puhor, and the high-priest says so too, that these strangers can bring no good to the black land! I am for the good old times, when no one who cared for his life dared set foot on Egyptian soil.

Now our streets are literally swarming with cheating Hebrews, and above all with those insolent Greeks whom may the gods destroy! [The Jews were called Hebrews (Apuriu) by the Egyptians; as brought to light by Chabas.