“And King my Lord, soldiers are moving to the city of _Gebal_, and behold the city _Durubli_(231) has sent forth soldiers to war to the city _Simyra_. If the heart of the King my Lord is toward the city of _Durubli_ my Lord will also order many soldiers, thirty chariots and an hundred chief men of your land; and you will halt at the city _Durubli_, my Lord’s city. If the lands are to be defended, the King will order the departure of Egyptian soldiers (_bitati_) to the city of _Gebal_, and (I doubt not?) you will march to us. And I ... to slay him, and ... behold the King my Lord ... faithful; and they have warred with the men _Kau Paur_(232) (Egyptian magnates) of the King. Lo! they have slain _Biari_ the _Paur_ (magnate) of the King, and he has given gifts to my ... and they are helping. And none are servants of the King. And evil in our eyes behold is this. I am spoiled, and I fear lest ... no wish of the faithful chief be granted to him. Lo! you will make my kindred to be afflicted. The King shall arm the land ... thy soldiers great and small, all of them; and _Pakhamnata_(233) did not listen to me and they do a deed that ... and thou shalt tell him this, that he shall set free the city of _Simyra_; and (the King) will listen to the message of his servant, and shall (send) Egyptian soldiers. Behold he will say to the King that the Egyptian soldiers have no corn or food to eat, all the enemies have cut off from the midst of the cities of the King my Lord the food and the corn ... and (I) have raised soldiers gathering (in) the city of _Gebal_ ... there is not ... you shall send to us ... and to march to it, and I have stopped ... and not one of the lands of the _Canaanites_ helps _Yankhamu_ though he is for the King.”