who would prevent my return?’ He went away and spoke unto the prince, who began to weep at the words which were told unto him and which were so sad.  He sent his scribe out unto me, who brought me two measures of wine and a deer.  He sent me Tentnuet, an Egyptian singing-girl who was with him, saying unto her, ‘Sing unto him, that he may not grieve!’ He sent word unto me, ’Eat, drink, and grieve not!  To-morrow shalt thou hear all that I shall say.’  On the morrow he had the people of his harbour summoned, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said unto the Tjakaray, ’What aileth you?’ They answered him, ’We will pursue the piratical ships which thou sendest unto Egypt with our unhappy companions.’  He said unto them, ’I cannot seize the ambassador of Amen in my land.  Let me send him away and then do ye pursue after him to seize him!’ He sent me on board, and he sent me away... to the haven of the sea.  The wind drove me upon the land of Alashiya.  The people of the city came out in order to slay me.  I was dragged by them to the place where Hatiba, the queen of the city, was.  I met her as she was going out of one of her houses into the other.  I greeted her and said unto the people who stood by her, ’Is there not one among you who understandeth the speech of Egypt?’ One of them replied, ‘I understand it.’  I said unto him, ’Say unto thy mistress:  even as far as the city in which Amen dwelleth (i. e.  Thebes) have I heard the proverb, “In all cities is injustice done; only in Alashiya is justice to be found,” and now is injustice done here every day!’ She said, ‘What is it that thou sayest?’ I said unto her, ’Since the sea raged and the wind drove me upon the land in which thou livest, therefore thou wilt not allow them to seize my body and to kill me, for verily I am an ambassador of Amen.  Remember that I am one who will be sought for always.  And if these men of the Prince of Byblos whom they seek to kill (are killed), verily if their chief finds ten men of thine, will he not kill them also?’ She summoned the men, and they were brought before her.  She said unto me, ‘Lie down and sleep...’”

At this point the papyrus breaks off, and we do not know how Uenuamen returned to Egypt with his wood.  The description of his casting-away and landing on Alashiya is quite Homeric, and gives a vivid picture of the manners of the time.  The natural impulse of the islanders is to kill the strange castaway, and only the fear of revenge and of the wrath of a distant foreign deity restrains them.  Alashiya is probably Cyprus, which also bore the name Yantinay from the time of Thothmes III until the seventh century, when it is called Yatnan by the Assyrians.  A king of Alashiya corresponded with Amenhetep III in cuneiform on terms of perfect equality, three hundred years before:  “Brother,” he writes, “should the small amount of the copper which I have sent thee be displeasing unto thy heart, it is because in my land the hand of Nergal my lord slew all the men of