THE EGYPTIAN SUDAN the title of " Prince of Kash " ' (or, Cush). It is possible that Amen-hetep I. had himself held the same position and borne the same title, and some colour is lent to this view by the statements made in the inscription of Amasis the son of Baba, to which reference has already been made. We have seen that this officer followed Amasis I. into Nubia, and that he also took Amenhetep I. there, and in the last lines of the text in his tomb he adds the information that he alsa conveyed Thothmes I. up the Nile when he went to Khent-hennefer to punish the natives who had broken out into open rebellion. Amen-hetep I. was very fortunate to be able to avail himself of the services of his father's old, trusted, and experienced captain of the boats, and he was more fortunate still when he knew that his son would be accompanied by this capable veteran.

When we consider the importance of the Sudan to Egypt it is difficult to understand why the kings of the Xllth Dynasty had not appointed their sons to be " Princes of Kash." The traffic up and down the river, in which the king was the most interested party, must have been enormous. The boats from the south were filled with negroes, cattle, gold, precious stones, grain, ivory, ebony, frankincense, gum, skins, etc., whilst those from the north were loaded with food with which to feed the Egyptian officials and the thousands of wretched men who toiled in the gold mines, and at crushing the ore and washing out the gold. Such traffic was far too valuable to leave entirely to the management of the local governors, and that this fact was recognized by Amen-hetep I. is clear from his appointment of a " Prince of Kash." At first the holders of the viceroyalty were all princes of the blood, but long before the close of the XVIIIth Dynasty, the Government found it to be expedient to allow high officials who were not of royal birth to bear the title. Sometimes, it seems, an Egyptian prince accepted the title, but lived at court in Egypt ; in such cases a deputy was appointed who administered the country in the name of the Prince of Kash. Thus we see that Amen-hetep I. made the Sudan a province of Egypt, and there are many indications in the inscriptions that it was divided into districts, each of which 566