Spiegel, Avesta II.] "The tailor's indignation at hearing this was even greater than his astonishment, and pointing to the landing-steps, he cried: "It is really too bad; see, there is the sixth boat full of these foreigners!" "Yes, it is hard indeed!" sighed the priest, "one might fancy a whole army arriving.

Amasis will go on in this manner until the strangers drive him from his throne and country, and plunder and make slaves of us poor creatures, as the evil Hyksos, those scourges of Egypt, and the black Ethiopians did, in the days of old." "The seventh boat!" shouted the tailor.
"May my protectress Neith, the great goddess of Sais, destroy me, if I can understand the king," complained the priest.

"He sent three barks to Naukratis, that poisonous nest hated of the gods, to fetch the servants and baggage of these Persians; but instead of three, eight had to be procured, for these despisers of the gods and profaners of dead bodies have not only brought kitchen utensils, dogs, horses, carriages, chests, baskets and bales, but have dragged with them, thousands of miles, a whole host of servants.

They tell me that some of them have no other work than twining of garlands and preparing ointments.

Their priests too, whom they call Magi, are here with them.