“Will not the King order his _Paka_ to pronounce judgment? and let him guard the chief city of my Lord, and order me as I (say), and let my Lord the Sun set free the lands, and truly my lord shall order the wicked men all of them to go out. I present my memorial in the sight of my Lord, but this dog has not taken any of thy Gods. Prosperity has fled which abode in _Gebal_, which city of _Gebal_ was as a city very friendly to the King. It is grievous. Behold I have associated _Abdbaal_ the prefect with _Ben Khia_ (or _Ben Tobia_) a man of (war?); but despatch thou him to thy servant...” 57 B.—The salutation as usual mentions Baalath of Gebal. “Why shall the King my Lord send to me? The best indeed trembles, of those who watch for him against my foes, and of my freemen. What shall defend me if the King will not defend his servant?... if the King will order for us chiefs of the Land of Egypt, and of the Land of _Nubia_, and horses, by the hand of this my chief as I hope, and preservation for the servants of the King my Lord. If none at all ... to me ... to march horses ... my land is miserable. By my soul’s life! if the King cared at heart for the life of his servant, and of his chief city, he would have sent a garrison, and they had guarded thy city and thy servant. That the King shall know ... of our lands; and Egyptian soldiers (_bitati_) shall be ordered; and to save all that live in his land, therefore it is spoken as a message to the King (with thy messengers?) As to the ... of this dispute of _Khaia_ with the city of _Simyra_, that they should send us without delay thirteen talents (or pieces of gold): I gave the proclamation. The men of blood are named in the letter to the city of _Simyra_.(230) It avails not. Ask _Khaia_ as to the letter of our previous dispute with the city of _Simyra_—to satisfy the King, and to give security to the King, they are sending again, and...” 24 B. M.—This is broken at the top.