Part 38 (1/2)

26.2 They sink in the sand. Thou must have recourse to prayers, and thou gettest puzzled in thy address. Give me victuals and water, and I

26.3 shall reach my safety. They pretend to be deaf, they do not listen: they do not consent. Thou orderest:

26.4 ”Pa.s.s to the forge! Pa.s.s through the workshops!” Workmen in wood and metals and workmen in leather come before thee: they do

26.5 all thou wishest. They repair thy car, leaving aside all unserviceable pieces: they nail on again

26.6 a new pole: they replace the fittings: they replace the leathers of the harness, and at the back

26.7 they consolidate thy yoke: they replace the metallic ornaments: they incrust the marquetry:

26.8 they put on the handle of thy whip and arrange the thongs. Thou leavest very hastily

26.9 to fight at the perilous post; to perform valiant deeds.

_Section 5_

27.1 Mapou, O chosen scribe! Mohar, who knows his hand, conductor of the Arunas, chief of Tsebaou, explorer of the most distant limits of the land of Pa ... thou dost not

27.2 answer me anyhow: thou givest me no account; come let me tell all that happened to thee at the end of thy road. I begin

27.3 for thee at the dwelling of Sestsou (Rameses): hast thou not forced thy way therein? Hast thou not eaten fishes of...?

27.4 Hast thou not bathed therein? Oh, come, let us describe Atsion to thee: where is its fortress?

27.5 Come to the house of Ouati; to Sestsou-em-paif-nakhtou-ousormara;(461) to Sats ... aal,

27.6 also to Aksakaba? I have pictured to you Anini. Knowest thou not its customs? Nekhai,

27.7 and Rehoboth, hast thou not seen them since thy birth, O eminent Mohar? Raphia,

27.8 how about its entrenchment? It covers the s.p.a.ce of an _aour_ going toward Gaza.

27.9 Answer quickly, and speak to me of what I have said of a Mohar concerning thee. I have thunderstruck

28.1 the strangers at thy name of Marina: I have told them of thy fierce humor, according to which word thou saidst: ”I am fit for all works; I have been taught by my father, who had verified his judgment millions of times. I

28.2 can hold the reins, and also am skilful in action. Courage never forsakes my limbs; I am of the race Mentou.”

All that issues from thy tongue is very thwarting: thy phrases

28.3 are very puzzling: thou comest to me enveloped in difficulties charged with recrimination. Thou cuttest off the discourse of those who come in thy presence; thou dost not disgust thyself with fumbling, and

28.4 with a stern face sayest: ”Hasten ye: and desist not! How to do not to be able to succeed in it, and how to do to succeed in it?”(462) No! I stop not, for I arrive; let thy preoccupation get calmed:

28.5 tranquillize thy heart: prepare not privations for him who offerest himself to eat. I have mutilated the end of thy book, and I send it to thee back, as thou didst request; thy orders acc.u.mulate on my tongue, they rest on my lips: