THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN conquest of the country south of Egypt, so far 'as Korosko at least, was effected by the twenty-ninth year of the king's reign, for an inscription on a rock at the entrance to the Valley of Girgaui, on the road from Korosko, accidentally discovered by Dr. Liittge in 1875, states that Amenemhat I. came there in that year to smite the inhabitants of Uauat.' Whether the neighbourhood of Korosko formed a part of Uauat is uncertain, but the possession of this portion of Nubia would make him master of the gold mines in the Wudi al-'Alaki. This Wadi was entered from the Nile near Kubban, and in the Wadi al-Khawanib the remains of the tools and implements used in working the gold may be seen to this day.

ti Usertsen I., the son and successor of Amenemhat I., who had K X. reigned jointly with his father several years before he became sole « \/-c* \i monarch of Egypt, carried on the work of the conquest of the LjK/\ (/ sedan which his father had begun. In the forty-third year of his jjT ) reign he led an expedition into Nubia, some details of which are /J supplied by Ameni or Ameni-emhcit, the feudal lord of Menat-Khufu, in an inscription which is cut on the walls of his tomb at Beni-Hasan.-The campaign was directed against '"' four peoples,"* the text does not give us their names, but we are probably to understand the natives of Amam, Uauat, Arthet, and Metcha.

Usertsen I. sailed up the river into Nubia, defeated the tribes, and compelled them to bring him tribute ; the collecting of the offerings fell to the lot of Ameni, who says that he brought them back safely to Egypt, and that not a single man of his contingent was missing when he returned. Ameni was despatched a second time to the Sudan by his lord, and went thither at the head of four hundred men ; the avowed object of his mission was to bring back gold,* and he tells us that he did so. This mission was so successful that the king sent him once again to the south, and he and his four hundred men brought back with them the objects of ' See Brugsch, Aeg. Zeit., 1882, p. 30.

- See ChampoUion, Monuments, torn, iv., pi. 395 ; Lepsius, Denkmdler, li., 121, 122.

•• The word for gold is nitifu fSSS J(V ' * 534