UNDER THE SANDS OF THE DESERT.
In 529 B.C. Cambyses, the son and successor of Cyrus, in the fourth year of his reisn declared war against Egypt, first attacking Pelusiuin, By a singular and cunning stratagem he placed cats and dogs and sheep and other animals sacred to the Egyptians in front of his army, and the garrison, for fear of killing them, refrained from using their weapons. The city was carried without opposition, and the whole country eventually submitted to the Persian monarch.' Cambyses resolved to pursue his career of conquest. Ethiopia and the country of the Ammonites were now the object of his ambition. A portion of his army is believed to have been buried in the desert under heaps of moving sand, and famine destroyed a great number of the rest of the army, so that Cambyses was forced to go back in "shame and disgrace. " I.G.P.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 214, 10 September 1935, Page 6
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