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But the prince sent them back to Atribis; and when the hour came for army food, he commanded to serve that to him; so he ate dried meat with oat cakes. These were the mercenary regiments of Libya. When the prince ordered them to lay aside arms in the evening, and took farewell of the men, it seemed as though the soldiers and officers had yielded to madness.
"They know that it will be a son, while I, its father, do not know; and they doubt whether I shall love it, though it is easy to divine that I shall love the child even should it be a daughter. And as to honor for it, let them be at rest; I will occupy myself with that question." The city of Anu lay about seven hours of a foot journey from Atribis, but the prince was three days on this journey.
In the course of the following days the worthy Sofra arranged a series of hunts for Ramses, setting out toward the east from Atribis. Around the canals they shot birds with arrows; some they snared in an immense net trap which took in a number of tens of them, or they let out falcons against those which were flying at freedom.
At thought of the fasts and prayers which were awaiting him during initiation into temple secrets, Ramses felt a growing wish for amusements. His retinue divined this; hence pleasure followed pleasure. Again, on the road over which he traveled to Atribis, appeared throngs of people with shouts, flowers, and music. The enthusiasm reached its height at the city.
"My wife and daughter cried with the others, 'May he live through eternity! I sprang into the water and threw a garland at thy barge, worthiness; for this they promised an uten. When Thou wert pleased graciously to enter the city of Atribis, I approached to throw myself under the horses and stop thy chariot." The prince laughed.
When the prince's retinue entered the eastern desert, great hunts began with dogs and panthers against wild beasts. Of these they killed and seized, in the course of some days, a couple of hundred. When the worthy Sofra noticed that the prince had had enough of amusement in the open air and of company intents, he ceased hunting and brought his guest by the shortest road to Atribis.
From the summit of a tower, ninety feet high, whence priests observed the sky and communicated through colored flags with the neighboring temples in Memphis, Atribis, and Ann, the eye surveyed in the radius of some miles almost a whole province.
His face was blue and his mouth full of foam." "Like that captive in Atribis, Thou rememberest him? His name was Bakura; he broke into the feasting hall with complaints against the nomarch. He died that same night from drunkenness, of course. What dost Thou think?" Tutmosis dropped his head. "We must be very careful, my lord," whispered he. "We shall try," answered the prince, calmly.
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