ell that his servant who is now speaking
was afraid to declare the matter, and that to repeat it was a great
thing. The great god (_i.e._ the King), who is the counterpart of Ra,
hath done wisely in what he hath done, and thy servant who now speaketh
hath meditated upon it in his mind, and hath made himself to conform to
his plans. Thy Majesty is like unto Horus, and the victorious might of
thine arms hath conquered the whole world. Let thy Majesty command that
Maka [chief of] the country of Qetma, and Khentiaaush [chief of]
Khent-Keshu, and Menus [chief of] the lands of the Fenkhu, be brought
hither, and these Governors will testify that these things have come to
pass at the desire of thy KA (_i.e._ double), and that Thenu doth not
speak words of overboldness to thee, and that she is as [obedient as]
thy hunting dogs. Behold, the flight, which thy servant who is now
speaking made, was made by him as the result of ignorance; it was not
wilful, and I did not decide upon it after careful meditation. I cannot
understand how I could ever have separated myself from my country. It
seemeth to me now to have been the product of a dream wherein a man who
is in the swamps of the Delta imagineth himself to be in Abu
(Elephantine, or Syene), or of a man who whilst standing in fertile
fields imagineth himself to be in the deserts of the Sudan. I fear
nothing and no man can make with truth [accusations] against me. I have
never turned my ear to disloyal plottings, and my name hath never been
in the mouth of the crier [of the names of proscribed folk]; though my
members quaked, and my legs shook, my heart guided me, and the God who
ordained this flight of mine led me on. Behold, I am not a stiff-necked
man (or rebel), nay, I held in honour [the King], for I knew the land of
Egypt and that Ra hath made thy fear to exist everywhere in Egypt, and
the awe of thee to permeate every foreign land. I beseech thee to let me
enter my native land. I beseech thee to let me return to Egypt. Thou art
the apparel of the horizon. The Disk (_i.e._ the Sun) shineth at thy
wish. One drinketh the water of the river Nile at thy pleasure. One
breatheth the air of heaven when thou givest the word of command. Thy
servant who now speaketh will transfer the possessions which he hath
gotten in this land to his kinsfolk. And as for the embassy of thy
Majesty which hath been despatched to the servant who now speaketh, I
will do according to thy Majesty's desire, fo