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He visited finally the city of Sunnu, situated at the first cataract of the Nile, and visited the immense quarries, granite and sienite, where rocks were split off with wooden wedges on which the quarrymen poured water which swelled them, and thus obelisks one hundred and thirty feet high were detached from the face of the quarry.
Hence when the pharaoh returned from Sunnu to Thebes the chief treasurer brought unfavorable news the first day to him. "All the temples," said he, "refuse credit, and beg most obediently that thou, holiness, command to pay in the course of two years all sums which they have lent the treasury." "I understand," said the pharaoh; "this is the work of holy Mefres. How much do we owe them?"
"The holy prophets will manage us so that Musawasa will take Lower Egypt, and we shall have to flee to Thebes, if not to Sunnu, unless the Ethiopians drive us also from that place." "Thou speakest truth," replied Tutmosis; "our rulers' acts resemble those of traitors." They began to amuse themselves at two in the afternoon, and before sunset all present were drunk.
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