[4] The coloration or configuration of his limbs indicated to the learned in such matters his victorious career. Mentu was the god of war. [5] The southern boundary of the Egyptian empire. [6] Baka, Meama, Buhen were in Nubia. [7] The castor-oil plant (_Ricinus communis_). [8] The underworld. [9] The fellahin herdsmen of the time seem to have clubbed together into gangs, each of which was represented by a ganger, and the whole body by a superintendent of the gangs. [10] Corvee work for the government. [11] _I. e._, he did not impress men (wrongfully?) for the government works, such as irrigation or road-making. [12] An asterisk (*) attached to the title of a text indicates that a translation of part or all of it is printed in the following pages. [13] Lower Nubia. [14] District about the first cataract. [15] A name often applied to the great river Nile. [16] The usual Egyptian attitude of respect to a superior was to stand bent slightly forward, holding the arms downward. [17] The polytheistic Egyptians frequently used the term "God" without specifying any particular deity; perhaps, too, in their own minds they did not define the idea, but applied it simply to some general notion of Divinity. [18] Punt was the "land of spices" to the Egyptian, and thence, too, the finest incense was brought for the temple services. It included Somaliland in Africa, and the south of Arabia. [19] This paragraph is very difficult to restore and very doubtful. [20] _I. e._, the King Sehetepabra Amenemhat I., whose death is recorded in the next clause. [21] The king's city, and so throughout the story. [22] The land of the Temehu was in the Libyan desert on the west of Egypt. [23] Usertesen I., the son and heir of Amenemhat I., reigned ten years jointly with his father. [24] _I. e._, the western edge of Lower Egypt. [25] Perhaps this refers to the death of the king, or to the deliberations of the royal councilors. [26] Apparently a term for the king. [27] Sanehat, accidentally hearing the news of the old king's death, which was kept secret even from the members of the royal family, was overcome with agitation and fled. [28] It was of course night-time. [29] The Royal Residence called Athet-taui lay on the boundary of Upper and Lower Egypt, between Memphis and the entrance to the Faiyum, and so in the direction which Sanehat at first took in his flight from the western edge of the Delta. One might prefer the word Capital to Residence, but it can hardly be doubted that Thebes and Memphis were then the real capitals of Egypt.