vile-hearted foes even as I commanded thee.  The length and breadth of the earth are thine, and those who dwell in the East and the West are vassals unto thee.  Thou hast trodden upon all countries, thy heart is expanded (i.e. glad).  No one dareth to approach Thy Majesty with hostility, because I am thy guide to conduct thee to them.  Thou didst sail over the Great Circuit of water (the Euphrates) of Nehren (Aram Naharayim, or Mesopotamia) with strength and power.  I have commanded for thee that they should hear thy roarings, and run away into holes in the ground.  I stopped up their nostrils [shutting out] the breath of life.  I have set the victories of Thy Majesty in their minds.  The fiery serpent Khut which is on thy forehead burnt them up.  It made thee to grasp as an easy prey the Ketu peoples, it burnt up the dwellers in their marshes with its fire.  The Princes of the Aamu (Asiatics) have been slaughtered, not one of them remains, and the sons of the mighty men have fallen.  I have made thy mighty deeds to go throughout all lands, the serpent on my crown hath illumined thy territory, nothing that is an abomination unto thee existeth in all the wide heaven, and the people come bearing offerings upon their backs, bowing to the ground before Thy Majesty, in accordance with my decree.  I made impotent those who dared to attack thee, their hearts melted and their limbs quaked.

[Footnote 1:  The natives of the Eastern Desert of Nubia.]

[Illustration:  Stele on which is cut the Speech of Amen-Ra, summarising the Conquests of Thothmes III.]

“I have come, making thee to trample under foot the Chief of Tchah (Syria), I have cast them down under thy feet in all the lands, I have made them to behold Thy Majesty as the ‘lord of beams’ (i.e. the Sun-god), thou hast shone on their faces as the image of me.

“I have come, making thee to trample under foot the people of Asia, thou hast led away captive the Chiefs of the Aamu of Retenu, I have made them to behold Thy Majesty arrayed in thy decorations, grasping the weapons for battle, [mounted] on thy chariot.

“I have come, making thee to trample under foot the land of the East, thou hast trodden upon those who dwell in the districts of the Land of the God, I have made them to see thee as the brilliant star that shooteth out light and fire and scattereth its dew.

“I have come, making thee to trample under foot the land of the West, Kefti (Phoenicia) and Asi (Cyprus) are in awe of thee.  I have made them to see Thy Majesty as a young bull, steady-hearted, with horns ready to strike, invincible.

“I have come, making thee to trample under foot those who are in their marshes, the Lands of Methen (Mitani) quake through their fear of thee.  I have made them to see Thy Majesty as the crocodile, the lord of terror in the water, unassailable.

“I have come, making thee to trample under foot those who dwell in the Islands, those who live in the Great Green (Mediterranean) hear thy roarings, I have made them to see Thy Majesty as the slayer when he mounteth on the back of his sacrificial animal.