n, and they became his live-stock for ever.

[Footnote 1: Perhaps the district of Canopus.]

I made a very large well in the desert of Aina. It had a girdle wall
like a mountain of basalt(?), with twenty buttresses(?) in the
foundation [on] the ground, and its height was thirty cubits, and it had
bastions. The frame-work and the doors were cut out of cedar, and the
bolts thereof and their sockets were of copper. I cut out large
sea-going boats, with smaller boats before them, and they were manned
with large crews, and large numbers of serving-men. With them were the
officers of the bowmen of the boats, and there were trained captains and
mates to inspect them. They were loaded with the products of Egypt which
were without number, and they were in very large numbers, like tens of
thousands. These were despatched to the Great Sea of the water of Qett
(_i.e._ the Red Sea), they arrived at the lands of Punt, no disaster
followed them, and they were in an effective state and were
awe-inspiring. Both the large boats and the little boats were laden with
the products of the Land of the God, and with all kinds of wonderful and
mysterious things which are produced in those lands, and with vast
quantities of the _anti_ (myrrh) of Punt, which was loaded on to them by
tens of thousands [of measures] that were without number. The sons of
the chief of the Land of the God went in front of their offerings, their
faces towards Egypt. They arrived and were sound and well at the
mountain of Qebtit (Coptos),[1] they moored their boats in peace, with
the things which they had brought as offerings. To cross the desert they
were loaded upon asses and on [the backs of] men, and they were
[re]loaded into river-barges at the quay of Coptos. They were despatched
down the river, they arrived during a festival, and some of the most
wonderful of the offerings were carried into the presence of [My
Majesty]. The children of their chiefs adored my face, they smelt the
earth before my face, and rolled on the ground. I gave them to all the
gods of this land to propitiate the two gods in front of me every
morning.

[Footnote 1: _i.e._ the part at the Red Sea end of the Valley of
Hammamat.]

I despatched my envoys to the desert of Aataka to the great copper
workings that are in this place. Their sea-going boats were laden with
[some of] them, whilst those who went through the desert rode on asses.
Such a thing as this was never heard of before, from the