XCIX. But this boat only served to take him across

the river, and he longed to be able to embark in the Boat of Ra, and to sit in its bows and to sail about with the god for ever; this delight, however, could only be secured for him by means of Chapters C., CL., CII, CXXXIV., CXXXVIa., CXXXVIB., and, as a result, copies of most of these Chapters exist in nearly all large papyri. The Egyptian believed that he would encounter the foes who attacked Osiris in the underworld, and that the calamities which befel the god would come upon him also; he who delivered
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Osiris out of all his troubles was Thoth, the scribe of the gods, and to him were addressed Chapters