had escaped, and that under the direction of the Smait fiends, and of Set, who had reappeared, they were hiding in the swamps of the Eastern Delta.  Horus of Edfu, the winged disk, pursued them, speared them, and finally slew them in the presence of Ra.  For the moment there were no more enemies of Ra to be found in the district on land, although Horus passed six days and six nights in looking for them; but it seems that several of the followers of Set in the forms of water reptiles were lying on the ground under water, and that Horus saw them there.  At this time Horus had strict guard kept over the tomb of Osiris in Anrutef,[1] because he learned that the Smait fiends wanted to come and wreck both it and the body of the god.  Isis, too, never ceased to recite spells and incantations in order to keep away her husband’s foes from his body.  Meanwhile the “blacksmiths” of Horus, who were in charge of the “middle regions” of Egypt, found a body of the enemy, and attacked them fiercely, slew many of them, and took one hundred and six of them prisoners.  The “blacksmiths” of the west also took one hundred and six prisoners, and both groups of prisoners were slain before Ra.  In return for their services Ra bestowed dwelling-places upon the “blacksmiths,” and allowed them to have temples with images of their gods in them, and arranged for offerings and libations to be made to them by properly appointed priests of various classes.

[Footnote 1:  A district of Herakleopolis.]

Shortly after these events Ra discovered that a number of his enemies were still at large, and that they had sailed in boats to the swamps that lay round about the town of Tchal, or Tchar, better known as Zoan or Tanis.  Once more Horus unmoored the Boat of Ra, and set out against them; some took refuge in the waters, and others landed and escaped to the hilly land on the east.  For some reason, which is not quite apparent, Horus took the form of a mighty lion with a man’s face, and he wore on his head the triple crown.  His claws were like flints, and he pursued the enemy on the hills, and chased them hither and thither, and captured one hundred and forty-two of them.  He tore out their tongues, and ripped their bodies into strips with his claws, and gave them over to his allies in the mountains, who, no doubt, ate them.  This was the last fight in the north of Egypt, and Ra proposed that they should sail up the river and return to the south.  They had traversed all Egypt, and sailed over the lakes in the Delta, and down the arms of the Nile to the Mediterranean, and as no more of the enemy were to be seen the prow of the boat of Ra was turned southwards.  Thoth recited the spells that produced fair weather, and said the words of power that prevented storms from rising, and in due course the Boat reached Nubia.  When it arrived Horus found in the country of Uauatet men who were conspiring against him and cursing him, just as they had at one time blasphemed Ra.  Horus,