se of the princes and princesses. Thy
death must not take place in a foreign land, the Aamu folk shall not
escort thee [to thy grave], thou shalt not be placed in the skin of a
ram when thy burial is effected; but at thy burial there shall be ...
and the smiting of the earth, and when thou departest lamentations shall
be made over thy body."

When this royal letter reached me I was standing among the people of my
tribe, and when it had been read to me I threw myself face downwards on
the ground, and bowed until my head touched the dust, and I clasped the
document reverently to my breast. Then [I rose up] and walked to and fro
in my abode, rejoicing and saying, "How can these things possibly be
done to thy servant who is now speaking, whose heart made him to fly
into foreign lands [where dwell] peoples who stammer in their speech?
Assuredly it is a good and gracious thought [of the King] to deliver me
from death [here], for thy Ka (_i.e._ double) will make my body to end
[its existence] in my native land."

Here is a copy of the reply that was made by the servant of the Palace,
Sanehat, to the above royal document:

"In peace the most beautiful and greatest! Thy KA knoweth of the flight
which thy servant, who is now speaking, made when he was in a state of
ignorance, O thou beautiful god, Lord of Egypt, beloved of Ra, favoured
of Menthu, the Lord of Thebes. May Amen-Ra, lord of the thrones of the
Two Lands, and Sebek, and Ra, and Horus, and Hathor, and Tem and his
Company of the Gods, and Neferbaiu, and Semsuu, and Horus of the East,
and Nebt-Amehet, the goddess who is joined to thy head, and the
Tchatchau gods who preside over the Nile flood, and Menu, and
Heru-khenti-semti, and Urrit, the Lady of Punt, and Nut, and Heru-ur
(Haroeris), and Ra, and all the gods of Tamera (Egypt), and of the
Islands of the Great Green Sea (_i.e._ Mediterranean), bestow upon thee
a full measure of their good gifts, and grant life and serenity to thy
nostrils, and may they grant unto thee an eternity which hath no limit,
and everlastingness which hath no bounds! May thy fear penetrate and
extend into all countries and mountains, and mayest thou be the
possessor of all the region which the sun encircleth in his course. This
is the prayer which thy servant who now speaketh maketh on behalf of his
lord who hath delivered him from Ament.

"The lord of knowledge who knoweth men, the Majesty of the Setepsa abode
(_i.e._ the Palace), knoweth w