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MOON OF ISRAEL A Tale of the Exodus
by H. Rider Haggard

AUTHOR'S NOTE
This book suggests that the real Pharaoh of the Exodus was not
Meneptah or Merenptah, son of Rameses the Great, but the mysterious
usurper, Amenmeses, who for a year or two occupied the throne
between the death of Meneptah and the accession of his son the
heir-apparent, the gentle-natured Seti II.
Of the fate of Amenmeses history says nothing; he may well have
perished in the Red Sea or rather the Sea of Reeds, for, unlike those of
Meneptah and the second Seti, his body has not been found.
Students of Egyptology will be familiar with the writings of the scribe
and novelist Anana, or Ana as he is here called.

It was the Author's hope to dedicate this story to Sir Gaston Maspero,
K.C.M.G., Director of the Cairo Museum, with whom on several
occasions he discussed its plot some years ago. Unhappily, however,
weighed down by one of the bereavements of the war, this great
Egyptologist died in the interval between its writing and its publication.
Still, since Lady Maspero informs him that such is the wish of his
family, he adds the dedication which he had proposed to offer to that
eminent writer and student of the past.

Dear Sir Gaston Maspero,

When you assured me as to a romance of mine concerning ancient
Egypt, that it was so full of the "inner spirit of the old Egyptians" that,
after kindred efforts of your own and a lifetime of study, you could not
conceive how it had been possible for it to spring from the brain of a
modern man, I thought your verdict, coming from such a judge, one of
the greatest compliments that ever I received. It is this opinion of yours
indeed which induces me to offer you another tale of a like complexion.
Especially am I encouraged thereto by a certain conversation between
us in Cairo, while we gazed at the majestic countenance of the Pharaoh
Meneptah, for then it