THOTHMES 1, that he enslaved the Heru tribes,' and that their villages " smelled the earth " before him. The Khennutiu - folk sent messengers to bring their submission to His Majesty, and the chief of the Semti folk' was overthrown by him, and the " miserable and "contemptible negro fled as the king advanced up the river. He " gathered together the boundaries on both sides of the Nile, and " not a head of hair was absent " (i.e., no native was absent), and the Qetu * people rallied to him. He attacked the Anti of Kenset, i.e., the Troglodytes, he slaughtered them in the places where they lived, and they collapsed under his blows, and their bodies turned into carrion (?). Then His Majesty swept through the valleys and khors like a mighty flood which destroys and lays waste everything which stands in its way, and drove out the people like flocks of frightened birds. Then the " lords of the great house " built a fort for his soldiers which could not be captured by all the Nine Tribes of the Bow together, for His Majesty was to the Nubians as the young panther is to a cow which is frightened and blind. The souls of His Majesty extended the boundaries of his kingdom in all directions, he marched even to the uttermost limits of the country carrying his victorious sword with him, he sought battle everywhere, but found no one strong enough to resist him. He penetrated to mountains and deserts, wherein his predecessors had " not only never been, but which they had never even seen.'' The southern boundary of his kingdom was the uttermost limit of Nubia, and the northern was that river whereon if a man travel a southerly direction he journeys down stream.' The river here referred to is the Euphrates, and all the writer of the text wished to convey by his circumlocution was that, unlike the Nile, the Euphrates enters the sea at its southern end. Never, continues the text, was the like done by other kings. His name went forth to the bounds of the sky, it penetrated the Two Lands, and reached the Other World, and by it men were in the habit of swearing throughout all countries.

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