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Updated: May 26, 2025
Two men stood on the treadmill beside the large-bucketed wheel, and as they continued their endless walk the water dashed up into the trough and went splashing down the ditches into the thirsty gardens. The workers were tall, bronze-skinned Libyans, who were stripped to the waist, showing their splendid chests and rippling muscles.
Fortune remained equal; but both sides were so wearied that they would willingly have exchanged these skirmishes for a great battle, provided that it were really the last. Matho was inclined to carry this proposal himself to the Suffet. One of his Libyans devoted himself for the purpose. All were convinced as they saw him depart that he would not return. He returned the same evening.
To finish their trouble, on the outline of the sands stood a group of cliffs; among these the Libyans vanished. "Lord," said Pentuer, "that may be an ambush." "Let it be death, and let it take me!" replied the heir, in a changed voice. The priest gazed at him with wonder; he had not supposed such resolve in Ramses. The cliffs were not distant, but the road was laborious beyond description.
For the foolish Libyans sacrificed to him as to some divine power, thinking that they were placing their confidence in a voice that came down from heaven. Well, he collected a large number of parrots and put them all into a cage. For there are a great many parrots in Libya and they mimic the human voice very distinctly.
He was tried and acquitted, upon which the Libyans, as they were leaving the country, said: "We at any rate, O Spartans, will give more righteous judgments when you come to dwell amongst us" for there is an ancient oracle which says that the Lacedæmonians shall some day settle in Libya.
The slaves who bore these had shaven heads and were gagged lest some one of them might steal a costly jewel. Ramses rested both hands on the edge of the chariot and looked from the height of the hill at the Libyans, and at his own men, as a golden- headed eagle looks down on many colored partridges.
The Libyans and their northern allies were annihilated in a decisive battle, their king, Murai, fled from the field, and a countless amount of booty and prisoners fell into the hands of the victorious Egyptians. Canaan, however, was lost, with the exception of Gaza, which defended the road from Egypt, and was still garrisoned by Egyptian troops.
At last the penitent Libyans stood before the face of the prince, who looked at them as a fierce hippopotamus at ducklings which have no place to hide before his mightiness. "Art Thou he?" asked Ramses, suddenly. "Art Thou that Musawasa, the wise Libyan leader?" "I am thy servant," answered Musawasa, and he threw himself on the ground again. When they ordered him to rise, the prince said,
It is only the wicked Thebans may their hands wither! who disturb the dead, so as to drink away their property in dramshops?" "What mean those fires at the north there?" interrupted the prince. "It must be, worthiness, that Thou comest from afar if Thou know not," answered they. "Tomorrow our heir is returning with a victorious army. He is a great chief! He conquered the Libyans in one battle.
At Medinet Habû Rameses III. destroys the fleet of the peoples of the great sea, or receives the cut-off hands of the Libyans, which his soldiers bring to him as trophies. In the next scene, all is peace; and we behold Pharaoh pouring out a libation of perfumed water to his father Amen.
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