wretches were sent off as soon as taken to the quarries
or to the dockyards, thus relieving the king from the necessity of
imposing compulsory labour too frequently on his Egyptian subjects.

* The locality of the tribes against which Uni waged war
can, I think, be fixed by certain details of the campaign,
especially the mention of the oval or circular enclosures
"uanit" within which they entrenched themselves. These
enclosures, or ndars, correspond to the nadami which are
mentioned by travellers in these regions, and which are
singularly characteristic. The "Lords of the Sands"
mentioned by Uni occupied the nauami country, i.e. the Negeb
regions situated on the edge of the desert of Tih, round
about Ain-Qadis, and beyond it as far as Akabah and the Dead
Sea. Assuming this hypothesis to be correct, the route
followed by Uni must have been the same as that which was
discovered and described nearly twenty years ago, by
Holland.

"His Majesty sent me five times to lead this army in order to penetrate
into the country of the Lords of the Sands, on each occasion of their
revolt against this army, and I bore myself so well that his Majesty
praised me beyond everything." The Bedouin at length submitted, but
the neighbouring tribes to the north of them, who had no doubt assisted
them, threatened to dispute with Egypt the possession of the territory
which it had just conquered. As these tribes had a seaboard on the
Mediterranean, Uni decided to attack them by sea, and got together a
fleet in which he embarked his army. The troops landed on the coast of
the district of Tiba, to the north of the country of the Lords of the
Sands, thereupon "they set out. I went, I smote all the barbarians, and
I killed all those of them who resisted." On his return, Uni obtained
the most distinguished marks of favour that a subject could receive,
the right to carry a staff and to wear his sandals in the palace in the
presence of Pharaoh.

These wars had occupied the latter part of the reign; the last of them
took place very shortly before the death of the sovereign. The domestic
administration of Papi I. seems to have been as successful in its
results, as was his activity abroad. He successfully worked the mines
of Sinai, caused them to be regularly inspected, and obtained an unusual
quantity of minerals from them; the expedition he sent thither, in the
eighteenth year of hi