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69. The date of Zoan being carried back to the time of Pepi 
proves the earlier building of Hebron ; but it is clear that this 
stronghold of the Anakim must have been exempt from the 
warfare of Una which swept away the Herushafrom the Negeb. 
The settled inhabitants have in all ages been beset by the wan- 
dering tribes, Herusha, Shasu, Petti, and the like. In Saneha’s 
time the Tennu were at war with the Petti. It is quite possible 
that the Egyptians might chastise the Herusha-u without in- 
curring hostilities from the Canaanites. 
70. We may now, I think, identify the “ land of Takhisa.” 
71. Una landed to the north of this (perhaps at the very 
ancient port of Joppa), and “ subdued the country from the 
extreme frontier on the north of the land of Herusha,” while 
(apparently) another Egyptian force entered the country from 
the south. 
72. Now the group of towns classed as in the land of 
Takhisa in the Travels of an Egyptian , appears to include 
Timnath, Debir, Anab, Beth Tappuah, Aclullam, Zepliath, and 
Kadesh [Barnea]. 
73. This is the very country which Una would have swept 
if he had landed at Joppa, and marched southwards to 
Khetam, and he would have left Hebron, and such garrisons 
of the Anakim as Debir and Anab, occupied by their strong 
and martial inhabitants, who would perhaps have rejoiced to 
see the success of the Egyptians against their troublesome 
neighbours. In the same way Kedorla’omer “ returning ” 
from El-Paran, and coming to Kadesh-Barnea, “ smote all the 
country of the Amalekites/’ but kept clear of Hebron. So 
also did Thothmes III. in those conquests of which Lieutenant 
Conder has given a sketch-map.* 
74. But if we read with Brugsch “Terehba,” still it is 
curious to find on the eastern part of the same region, ’Ain 
Terabeh and Abu Teraibeh, and Ras Tareibeh ; and the 
dominaut tribe of Bedouins in this country is called Terabin. 
75. This southern part of Canaan then, as well as the 
Sinaitic mining regions, was already held as subject to the 
suzerainty of Egypt, long before the time that Abraham was 
there, but the inhabitants, or the nomads, Avere so unruly 
that they revolted five times in the single reign (a long one) 
of Pepi Merira, and had to be reduced by extensive operations, 
as we have recounted. 
* P. E. F., July, 1876. 
