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 wall carved by a hand now stilled three thousand years, an identical scene is depicted as it took place under the Pharaohs, tier upon tier of dark-skinned menials, each in the conventional costume and attitude, and bearing similar gifts on trays unto the king. There are the salvers of fruits and baked meats, the lotus flowers and other offerings; and here in Nepal the same scene was being enacted as in the days of the Israelites, with all the pomp, ceremony, and meaning of that bygone age.