[30] Perhaps the meaning is that Sanehat did not imagine life possible "after the king's death," or it may be "outside the Residence." The pronoun for "it" is masculine, and may refer either to the palace or to the king. [31] Or possibly "I turned my course," turning now northward. [32] Or possibly "the next day." [33] Here the MS. is injured, and some of the words are doubtful. The quarries are those still worked for hard quartzite at Jebel Ahmar (Red Mountain), northeast of Cairo. The positions of most of the places mentioned in the narrative are uncertain. Doubtless Sanehat crossed the Nile just above the fork of the Delta and landed in the neighborhood of the quarries. The "Mistress" (_Heryt_), must be a goddess, or the queen. [34] Asiatics and Bedawin. [35] Kemur was one of the Bitter Lakes in the line of the present Suez Canal. [36] Possibly one of the three persons proposed as hostages to Egypt below, p. 5246. The word translated "alien" is uncertain. It may mean a kind of consul or mediator between the tribes for the purposes of trade, etc., or simply a "sheikh." Sanehat himself, returned from Egypt in his old age, is called by the same title, p. 5248. [37] Or possibly Adim, _i. e._, Edom; and so throughout. [38] Later called Upper Retenu: they were the inhabitants of the high lands of Palestine. Ammi was a divine name in Ancient Arabia, and the name Ammi-anshi, found in South-Arabian inscriptions, perhaps of 1000 B.C., is almost identical with that of the king who befriended Sanehat. [39] These words appear to have been omitted by the scribe. [40] _I. e._, What does Egypt do without the king? [41] The goddess of destruction. [42] Lit, "stick." [43] A metaphor for the "policy," "will," of a king or god. [44] Meaning "reeds" (?). [45] _I. e._, of Pharaoh; see above, p. 5238. [46] A difficult passage. [47] Without any pause or introduction Sanehat begins to quote from his petition to the King of Egypt. It is difficult to say whether this arrangement is due to an oversight of the scribe, or is intended to heighten the picturesqueness of the narrative by sudden contrast. The formal introduction might well be omitted as uninteresting. The end of the document with the salutations is preserved. [48] A phrase for the queen. [49] The narrator. [50] The scribe has written Amenemhat by mistake for Usertesen. [51] Or Adim; see above, p. 5239, note. [52] The queen, his exalted mistress. [53] Taking part in the councils of the king and in the administration of the kingdom. [54] This seems to refer to the so-called false door, representing the entrance to the underworld. All that precedes refers to burial with great ceremony.