Aahmes, in contracting his marriage with the Ethiopian princess, to whom he gave the name of Nefertari-Aahmes—or "the good companion of Aahmes"—was, we may be tolerably sure, bent on obtaining a contingent of those stalwart troops whose modern representatives are either the Blacks of the Soudan or the Gallas of the highlands of Abyssinia.

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Ancient Egypt
By George Rawlinson
Published 1886
Available from gutenberg.org

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Saturday 21 November 2020

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Ancients, Egypt

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