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For I will bring the Egyptians and the Phoenicians as my principal witnesses, because nobody can complain of their testimony as false, on account that they are known to have borne the greatest ill-will towards us.

I mean this as to the Egyptians in general all of them, while of the Phoenicians it is known the Tyrians have been most of all in the same ill disposition towards us.

Yet do I confess that I cannot say the same of the Chaldeans, since our first leaders and ancestors were derived from them, and they do not make mention of us Jews in their records, on account of the kindred there is between us.

Now when I shall have made my assertions good, so far as concerns the others, I will demonstrate that some of the Greek writers have made mention of us Jews also, that those who envy us may not have even this pretense for contradicting what I have said about our nation.

But then, as to those things which Manetho adds, not from the Egyptian records, but, as he confesses himself, from some stories of an uncertain original, I will disprove them hereafter particularly, and shall demonstrate that they are no better than incredible fables.

I will now, therefore, pass from these records and come to those that belong to the Phoenicians and concern our nation, and shall produce attestations to what I have said out of them.

These are then records among the Tyrians that take in the history of many years, and these are public writings, and are kept with great exactness, and include accounts of the facts done among them, and such as concern their transactions with other nations also.

Those, I mean, which were worth remembering.

Godmother had taught her to love the stars.

as well as they could in new york where to most people only scraps of sky are visible at a time they had been wont to watch with keen interest for the nightly appearance of stars they could see from their windows or from the streets as they went to and fro and when they got aboard ship and had the whole sky to look at they revelled in their night hours on the deck and in picking out the constellations and their bright particular stars This led the captain to tell Mary Alice something of the stars as the sailors' friends, and she had one of the most memorable evenings of her life when he explained to her something of the science of navigation, and made her see how their great greyhound of the ocean, just like the first frail barks of the Tyrians, picked its way across trackless wastes of sea by the infallible guidance of the friendly stars.

All this particularly interested Mary Alice, because of someone who lived much in the open, and spent many and many a night on the broad deserts, looking up at the stars.

They landed at Naples, and lingered a fortnight in that lovely vicinity, then up to Rome, to Florence and Venice, to Milan and the Italian lakes, through Switzerland into France, and so to Paris.

Ezekiel chapter 28 and verse 11.

Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus and say unto him, thus saith the Lord.

or thus saith the Lord God, thou sealest up to some full of wisdom and perfect and beauty.

You say, well, how do you know that this description is the devil? All right, next verse, verse 13.

Thou hast been in Eden.

Okay, well, the king of Tyrus wasn't in Eden, but the devil was, wasn't he? So the Lord said, you know, he was created and he was full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

You know, you haven't seen a more gorgeous creature than the devil.

You know, he's usually portrayed, you know, by cartoonists as, you know, some hideous kind of creature.

B. Singh.

Chapter twelve, Hiram, King of Tyre.

For Hiram was ever a lover of David.

First Kings, verse one.

A treaty of trade was soon established between the two kingdoms of Israel and Phoenicia.

Here is a well-known story.

And King Hiram, king of Tyre, sent his servants unto Solomon, for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father.

For Hiram was ever a lover of David.

By sea, by land, thy matchless worth was known, Arms thy delight, and war was all thy own.

Thy force infused, the fainting Tyrians propped, And haughty Pharaoh found his fortune stopped, O ancient honour, O unconquered hand, Whom foes unpunished never could withstand.

But Israel was unworthy of thy name, Short as the date of all immoderate fame.

It looks as heaven our ruin had designed, And durst not trust thy fortune and thy mind.

By sea, by land, thy matchless worth was known, Arms thy delight, and war was all thy own.

Thy force infused, the fainting Tyrians propped, And haughty Pharaoh found his fortune stopped.

O ancient honor, O unconquered hand, Whom foes unpunished never could withstand, But Israel was unworthy of thy name.

Short is the date of all immoderate fame.

Coastal communities continued exchanging goods, stories, marriage partners, and techniques.

In the Levant, cities such as Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos endured or recovered.

Their merchants would eventually establish trading settlements across the Mediterranean, carrying timber, purple dye, metalwork, and a writing system with enormous consequences, the alphabet.

Earlier writing systems had often required years of specialized training.