ckler. He
is fearless, and dashes the heads, and none can stand before him. He is
swift of foot, to destroy him who flies; and none who flees from him
reaches his home. His heart is strong in his time; he is a lion who
strikes with the claw, and never has he turned his back. His heart is
closed to pity; and when he sees multitudes, he leaves none to live behind
him. He is a valiant one who springs in front when he sees resistance; he
is a warrior who rejoices when he flies on the barbarians. He seizes the
buckler, he rushes forward, he never needs to strike again, he slays and
none can turn his lance; and when he takes the bow the barbarians flee
from his arms like dogs; for the great goddess has given to him to strike
those who know her not; and if he reaches forth he spares none, and leaves
naught behind. He is a friend of great sweetness, who knows how to gain
love; his land loves him more than itself, and rejoices in him more than
in its own god; men and women run to his call. A king, he has ruled from
his birth; he, from his birth, has increased births, a sole being, a
divine essence, by whom this land rejoices to be governed. He enlarges the
borders of the South; but he covets not the lands of the North: he does
not smite the Sati, nor crush the Nemau-shau. If he descends here, let him
know thy name, by the homage which thou wilt pay to his majesty. For he
refuses not to bless the land which obeys him."

And he replied to me: "Egypt is indeed happy and well settled; behold thou
art far from it, but whilst thou art with me I will do good unto thee."
And he placed me before his children, he married his eldest daughter to
me, and gave me the choice of all his land, even among the best of that
which he had on the border of the next land. It is a goodly land, Iaa is
its name. There are figs and grapes; there is wine commoner than water;
abundant is the honey, many are its olives; and all fruits are upon its
trees: there are barley and wheat, and cattle of kinds without end. This
was truly a great thing that he granted me, when the prince came to invest
me, and establish me as prince of a tribe in the best of his land. I had
my continual portion of bread and of wine each day, of cooked meat, of
roasted fowl, as well as the wild game which I took, or which was brought
to me, beside what my dogs captured. They made me much butter, and
prepared milk of all kinds. I passed many years, the children that I had
became great, ea