wn tribes.--Very happy thy return to
Thebes--victorious! Thy chariot is drawn by hand--the conquered chiefs
march backwards before thee--whilst thou leadest them to thy venerable
father--Amon, husband of his mother." And the poets amuse themselves
with summoning Maraiu to appear in Egypt, pursued as he was by his own
people and obliged to hide himself from them. "He is nothing any longer
but a beaten man, and has become a proverb among the Labu, and his
chiefs repeat to themselves: 'Nothing of the kind has occurred since the
time of Ra.' The old men say each one to his children: 'Misfortune
to the Labu! it is all over with them! No one can any longer pass
peacefully across the country; but the power of going out of our
land has been taken from us in a single day, and the Tihonu have been
withered up in a single year; Sutkhu has ceased to be their chief, and
he devastates their "duars;" there is nothing left but to conceal one's
self, and one feels nowhere secure except in a fortress.'" The news of
the victory was carried throughout Asia, and served to discourage the
tendencies to revolt which were beginning to make themselves manifest
there. "The chiefs gave there their salutations of peace, and none among
the nomads raised his head after the crushing defeat of the Libyans;
Khati is at peace, Canaan is a prisoner as far as the disaffected are
concerned, the inhabitant of Ascalon is led away, Gezer is carried into
captivity, Ianuamim is brought to nothing, the Israilu are destroyed and
have no longer seed, Kharu is like a widow of the land of Egypt."*

* This passage is taken from a stele discovered by Petrie in
1896, on the site of the Amenophium at Thebes. The mention
of the Israilu immediately calls to mind the place-names
Yushaph-ilu, Yakob-ilu, on lists of Thutmosis III. which
have been compared with the names Jacob and Joseph.

Minephtah ought to have followed up his opportunity to the end, but he
had no such intention, and his inaction gave Maraiu time to breathe.
Perhaps the effort which he had made had exhausted his resources,
perhaps old age prevented him from prosecuting his success; he was
content, in any case, to station bodies of pickets on the frontier,
and to fortify a few new positions to the east of the Delta. The Libyan
kingdom was now in the same position as that in which the Hittite had
been after the campaign of Seti I.: its power had been checked for the
moment, but it rem