do so or whether not. To _Raban_ and _Abdbaal_, to
_Rabana_ and _Rabziddu_ thus: behold to all of you be peace indeed, and
will not you harden your hearts, and will not you settle all in your
hearts, and do what is fitting from your places? Much peace; and to (the
people?) peace be increased."

91 B.--"To the King my Lord thus (says) the city _Gebal_(179) (and) thus
_Rabikhar_ ('the Lord of Phoenicia') thy servant. At the feet of my Lord
the Sun seven times I bow. Do not be angry, O King my Lord, with the city
of _Gebal_ (_Gubla_) thy handmaid--a city of the King from of old, obeying
what the King commands as to _Aziru_, and it did as he wished. Behold
_Aziru_ slew _Adunu_, Lord of the land of _Ammia_,(180) and the King of
the land of _Ardata_,(181) and has slain the great men, and has taken
their cities for himself. The city _Simyra_ is his. Of the cities of the
King only the city _Gebal_ escapes for the King. Behold the city _Simyra_
is subjected. He has smitten the city _Ullaza_.(182) The captains of both
have gone into exile. Behold this sin _Aziru_ wrought. Sinful are his
strivings against her ... he has smitten all the lands of _Ham_ (_Am_),
lands of the King; and now he has despatched his men to destroy all the
lands of _Ham_; and the King of the land of the _Hittites_, and the king
of the land of _Nereb_ (_Nariba_)(183) (have made?) the land conquered
land."

From these letters we learn clearly that the Mongol kings near the
Euphrates (and, as appears later, in Armenia) were leagued with the
Hittites of Mer'ash in the extreme north of Syria, and of Kadesh on the
Orontes, and were supported by the Amorites of the northern Lebanon and by
some of the Phoenicians; that the enemy marched south, a distance of 300
miles, taking all the towns in the Baalbek Valley, reaching Damascus by
the gorge of the Barada River, and advancing into the land of Ham--in
Bashan--where all the chief towns fell. This serves to make clear the
treachery of Aziru's letters which follow. The Amorite advance on the
Phoenician coast was contemporary, and extended to Tyre. It appears,
however, that the Amorites were a Semitic people, while the names of the
Hittites are Mongolic.

The Amorite Treachery

No. 35 B.--"To the King my Lord my God my Sun _Aziru_ thy servant; and
seven times at the feet of my Lord my God my Sun I bow." The letter is
much broken, but promises he will never rebel, and says he is sincere. He
desires land of th