I made a very large well in the desert of Aina.  It had a girdle wall like a mountain of basalt(?), with twenty buttresses(?) in the foundation [on] the ground, and its height was thirty cubits, and it had bastions.  The frame-work and the doors were cut out of cedar, and the bolts thereof and their sockets were of copper.  I cut out large sea-going boats, with smaller boats before them, and they were manned with large crews, and large numbers of serving-men.  With them were the officers of the bowmen of the boats, and there were trained captains and mates to inspect them.  They were loaded with the products of Egypt which were without number, and they were in very large numbers, like tens of thousands.  These were despatched to the Great Sea of the water of Qett (i.e. the Red Sea), they arrived at the lands of Punt, no disaster followed them, and they were in an effective state and were awe-inspiring.  Both the large boats and the little boats were laden with the products of the Land of the God, and with all kinds of wonderful and mysterious things which are produced in those lands, and with vast quantities of the anti (myrrh) of Punt, which was loaded on to them by tens of thousands [of measures] that were without number.  The sons of the chief of the Land of the God went in front of their offerings, their faces towards Egypt.  They arrived and were sound and well at the mountain of Qebtit (Coptos),[1] they moored their boats in peace, with the things which they had brought as offerings.  To cross the desert they were loaded upon asses and on [the backs of] men, and they were [re]loaded into river-barges at the quay of Coptos.  They were despatched down the river, they arrived during a festival, and some of the most wonderful of the offerings were carried into the presence of [My Majesty].  The children of their chiefs adored my face, they smelt the earth before my face, and rolled on the ground.  I gave them to all the gods of this land to propitiate the two gods in front of me every morning.

[Footnote 1:  i.e. the part at the Red Sea end of the Valley of Hammamat.]

I despatched my envoys to the desert of Aataka to the great copper workings that are in this place.  Their sea-going boats were laden with [some of] them, whilst those who went through the desert rode on asses.  Such a thing as this was never heard of before, from the time when kings began to reign.  Their copper workings were found, and they were full of copper, and the metal was loaded by ten thousands [of measures] into their sea-going boats.  They were despatched with their faces towards Egypt, and they arrived safely.  The metal was lifted out and piled up under the veranda in the form of blocks (or ingots) of copper, vast numbers of them, as it were tens of thousands.  They were in colour like gold of three refinings.  I allowed everybody to see them, as they were wonderful things.