iS(!s.] 549 [Lesley. 



Then were brought the ^vise Scribes of Pliaraoh ; and they 

 said to Pharaoh : that is the look of liair of a daughter of the Sun 

 God; and all godhead is in her: the whole land Avorships her ; 

 send now messengers throughout all lands to seek for her ; but 

 let the messenger who shall go to the Cedar Mountain be ac- 

 companied by much people, to bring her hither. See now, said 

 the King, it is very good what ye have said; and they were sent. 



Many days afterward came back the people who had been sent 

 to other lands to tell the King their news, but those came not who 

 had gone to the Cedar Mountain ; for Batau had slain them, and 

 had left but one of them to tell the King the news. And the 

 King sent people out, many warriors on foot and on horseback, 

 again to bring her ; and there was also a woman among them ; to 

 whom the3^ gave all kinds of noble woman's trinckets in her hand. 

 Then came the wife back with her into Egypt, and there was 

 great joy on account of her throughout all the land ; and the King 

 loved her dearly and exalted her to great beauty. And they 

 spake with her, that she should reveal the story of her husband. 

 Then said she to the King : let the Cedar tree be felled, that he 

 may perish ! Then sent they armed men, bearing axes, to fell 

 the Cedar tree ; and they came to the Cedar and cut the flower 

 awa^' in the midst of which was Batau's soul, and it fell, and so 

 he died in a short time. 



When the earth grew light again and a new da>' arose, there 

 was the Cedar Tree cut doAvn. Then went Anepu, the elder 

 brother of Batau, into his house to wash his hands ; and he took 

 a jug of barle}' water which he sealed up with pitch, and another 

 jug of wine which he stopped with clay; and he took his staff" 

 and his shoes, and his raiment, and provision for his journey, and 

 betook himself upon the wa}^ to the Cedar Mountain. And he 

 came to the hut of his younger brother; and he found his younger 

 brother stretched out upon his mat ; and he was dead ; and ho 

 began to weep, when he beheld his younger brother lie stretched 

 out in the condition of the dead. Then went he forth to seek 

 his A^ounger brother's soul under the Cedar Tree, under which 

 his younger brother laid himself at eventide. And he sought for 

 it three daA's, Avithout finding it ; and when the fourth day was 

 past, his soul longed to return to Egypt. 



After the earth ha^^l become light and a new day had arisen, 

 then he arose and Avent under the Cedar Tree, and he busied him- 



