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Show Palm Sacred to Egyptians The date palm tree Is a sacred thing. For thousands of years it has been to the Egyptian fellahs and to the nomads of Africa the tree of life and the tree of death. Its dates are so nourishing that with frugal races they are a principal article of food. Upon its transparent bark was written, writ-ten, in ancient hieroglyphics, the first awakening of human thought. Its wood provided tofiins for the old Egyp-tian Egyp-tian tombs ; Its essences perfumed, the wrappings of mummies. |