country.  Never were brought such things to this land.  I came back from the house of the Chief of Setu and Arthet, having opened up these countries.  Never before had any smer or governor of the caravan who had appeared in the country of Amam opened up a road.  Moreover, His Majesty sent me a third time to Amam.  I started from ... on the Uhat road, and I found the Governor of Amam was then marching against the Land of Themeh, to fight the Themeh, in the western corner of the sky.  I set out after him to the Land of Themeh, and made him to keep the peace, whereupon he praised all the gods for the King (of Egypt). [Here follow some broken lines.] I came back from Amam with three hundred asses laden with incense, ebony, heknu, grain, panther skins, ivory, ... boomerangs, and valuable products of every kind.  When the Chief of Arthet, Setu, and Uauat saw the strength and great number of the warriors of Amam who had come back with me to the Palace, and the soldiers who had been sent with me, this chief brought out and gave to me bulls, and sheep, and goats.  And he guided me on the roads of the plains of Arthet, because I was more perfect, and more watchful (or alert) than any other smer or governor of a caravan who had ever been despatched to Amam.  And when the servant (i.e. Herkhuf) was sailing down the river to the capital (or Court) the king made the duke, the smer uat, the overseer of the bath, Khuna (or Una) sail up the river with boats loaded with date wine, mesuq cakes, bread-cakes, and beer."[1]

[Footnote 1:  Herkhuf’s titles are here repeated.]

Herkhuf made a fourth journey into the Sudan, and when he came back he reported his successes to the new king, Pepi II, and told him that among other remarkable things he had brought back from Amam a dancing dwarf, or pygmy.  The king then wrote a letter to Herkhuf and asked him to send the dwarf to him in Memphis.  The text of this letter Herkhuf had cut on the front of his tomb, and it reads thus:  Royal seal.  The fifteenth day of the third month of the Season Akhet (Sept.-Oct.) of the second year.  Royal despatch to the smer uat, the Kher-heb priest, the governor of the caravan, Herkhuf.  I have understood the words of this letter which thou hast made to the king in his chamber to make him to know that thou hast returned in peace from Amam, together with the soldiers who were with thee.  Thou sayest in this thy letter that there have been brought back by thee great and beautiful offerings of all kinds, which Hathor, the Lady of Ammaau, hath given to the divine Ka of the King of the South and North, Neferkara, the everliving, for ever.  Thou sayest in this thy letter that there hath been brought back by thee [also] a pygmy (or dwarf) who can dance the dance of the god, from the Land of the Spirits, like the pygmy whom the seal-bearer of the god Baurtet brought back from Punt in the time of Assa.  Thou sayest to [my] Majesty, “The like of him hath never