THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN 4. He whose birth is divine. 5. King of the South and North.

6. The hving Creator. 7. The Golden Mawk (Horus). 8. The Son of the Sun. 9. Lord of the two lands. 10. Ra-kha-kau, giver of life. 11. Usertsen, giver of life, stability, and power, for ever ! The text below reads : 1. "In the third month of the season Pert, His Majesty " fixed the southern boundary at Heh.

2. " I made my boundary, and I advanced up the river " [beyond that] of my father's. I added 3. " greatly thereunto, and I give commands (or, I pass " decrees). I am the king (suten), and what is said [by '' me] is done. What 4. " my heart conceiveth is that which my hand bringeth " to pass. [I am] a crocodile to seize and carry off, and " one who beateth down [his foes] 5. " mercilessly. Words do not remain still in my heart. " The coward among the flatterers standeth [in e.x-" pectation of] 6. " mercy, but the compassion of [his] enemies reacheth " not to him. He (i.e , the king) attacketh him that " attacketh him ; he is silent to him that is silent, 7. " and he returneth the answer to a matter according to " what hath happened. Now inaction (or, silence) after " an attack giveth strength 8. " to the heart of the enemy; mighty must be the attack, " [like that of a] crocodile. For the man who retreateth " is vile and a poltroon, and no man is he who on his own g. " territory is defeated and brought into servitude.

" Therefore thus is the Black, for he falleth down pros-" trate at the word which is 10. " spoken to him, and he turneth back when any attacketh " him, and he giveth his back in flight to his pursuer, " and he runneth away.

11. ** The Blacks are not men of boldness, but they are " timid and weak, and they have nothing but buttocks " for hearts.

12. " My Majesty hath seen them, and I have not erred con-" cerning them. I seized their women, I carried off 544