"And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, and
all the host of the Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there
remained not so much as one of them."
So perished Har-hat and the flower of the Egyptian army.
CHAPTER XLVI
WHOM THE LADY MIRIAM SENT
Of the ensuing day, Kenkenes had no very distinct memory. Very fair
and beautiful, one recollection remained--a recollection of another
figure on the eminence, and by the flash of white upthrown arms, and
the blowing of a somber cloud of hair, this time it was a woman. How
the morning sun glittered on the shaken timbrel; how the spotless
draperies went wild in the wind; how the group of lissome maidens on
the sand below wound in and out, in a mazy dance; how the multitude was
swept into transports of beatification; how the men became prophets and
the women, psalmists; how the vast wilderness reverberated with a great
chant of exultation--all this he remembered as a sublime dream.
Thereafter, Israel moved inland and down the coast some distance, for
the sea began to surrender its dead. Of the stir and method of the
removal he did not remember, but of the encampment and the reassembling
of the tribes he recalled several incidents.
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