es together for a fresh invasion. They returned to the attack
in the XIth year of Ramses, under the leadership of Kapur, a prince of
the Mashauasha.*

* The second campaign against the Libyans is known to us
from the inscriptions of the year XI. at Medinet-Habu.

[Illustration: 313.jpg THE CAPTIVE CHIEFS OF RAMSES III. AT
MEDINET-IHABU]

Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph by Beato. The first
prisoner on the left is the Prince of the Khati (cf. the cut
on p. 318 of the present work), the second is the Prince of
the Amauru [Amoritos], the third the Prince of the Zakkala,
the fourth that of the Shardana, the fifth that of the
Shakalasha (see the cut on p. 304 of this work), and the
sixth that of the Tursha [Tyrseni].

Their soul had said to them for the second time that "they would end
their lives in the nomes of Egypt, that they would till its valleys and
its plains as their own land." The issue did not correspond with their
intentions. "Death fell upon them within Egypt, for they had hastened
with their feet to the furnace which consumes corruption, under the
fire of the valour of the king who rages like Baal from the heights of
heaven. All his limbs are invested with victorious strength; with his
right hand he lays hold of the multitudes, his left extends to those who
are against him, like a cloud of arrows directed upon them to destroy
them, and his sword cuts like that of Montu. Kapur, who had come to
demand homage, blind with fear, threw down his arms, and his troops did
the same. He sent up to heaven a suppliant cry, and his son [Mashashalu]
arrested his foot and his hand; for, behold, there rises beside him the
god who knows what he has in his heart: His Majesty falls upon their
heads as a mountain of granite and crushes them, the earth drinks up
their blood as if it had been water...; their army was slaughtered,
slaughtered their soldiers," near a fortress situated on the borders
of the desert called the "Castle of Usirmari-Miamon." They were seized,
"they were stricken, their arms bound, like geese piled up in the bottom
of a boat, under the feet of His Majesty."* The fugitives were pursued
at the sword's point from the _Castle of Usirmari-Miamon_ to the _Castle
of the Sands_, a distance of over thirty miles.**

* The name of the son of Kapur, Mashashalu, Masesyla, which
is wanting in this inscription, is supplied from a parallel
inscription.