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shepherd or cowherd, and is the generic name of
the Syro-Aramaic races. These Amou of Noum-
Hotep are in fact the first instalment of the
immigrating hordes who were in all ages at-
tracted hy the proverbial fertility of Egypt, and
settled in the eastern portion of the Delta. The
Jews were eventually to be included in the
Amou, together with other nations; and if the
testimony afforded by the monuments of San *
can sufficiently be relied on when estimated by
the standard of such of the Amou as are still to
be found in Egypt, the name of Amou may fairly
be given also to the Shepherd-Kings. Indeed,
the much dreaded inhabitants of the marshes
spoken of by historians are none other than
Amou who had settled in Egypt. In their out-
of-the-way Bucholies, where they had settled
down, they afforded shelter to Psammeticlms
and to Amyrtceus. Later on, under the name of
Bi-Amites (Bi here represents the article in
Egyptianf), they gave themselves up to brigand-
age, and cut to pieces the troops of the Kaliphs
Merwan and Mamoun that had been sent against
them. Lastly, we may recognize the descend-

*i.e. Zoan, Tanis. — [Ed.]
. t Now read Pa. — [Ed.]