Khalupu; these allies of the Khati, all together, comprised three thousand chariots.”  Their efforts, however, were in vain.  “I fell upon them like Montu, my hand devoured them in the space of a moment, in the midst of them I hewed down and slew.  They said one to another:  ’This is no man who is amongst us; it is Sutkhu the great warrior, it is Baal incarnate!  These are not human actions which he accomplishes:  alone, by himself, he repulses hundreds of thousands, without leaders or men.  Up, let us flee before him, let us seek to save our lives, and let us breathe again!’” When at last, towards evening, the army again rallies round the king, and finds the enemy completely defeated, the men hang their heads with mingled shame and admiration as the Pharaoh reproaches them:  “What will the whole earth say when it is known that you left me alone, and without any to succour me? that not a prince, not a charioteer, not a captain of archers, was found to place his hand in mine?  I fought, I repulsed millions of people by myself alone.  ‘Victory-in-Thebes’ and ‘Nurit satisfied’ were my glorious horses; it was they that I found under my hand when I was alone in the midst of the quaking foe.  I myself will cause them to take their food before me, each day, when I shall be in my palace, for I was with them when I was in the midst of the enemy, along with the Prince Manna my shield-bearer, and with the officers of my house who accompanied me, and who are my witnesses for the combat; these are those whom I was with.  I have returned after a victorious struggle, and I have smitten with my sword the assembled multitudes.”

The ordeal was a terrible one for the Khati; but when the first moment of defeat was over, they again took courage and resumed the campaign.  This single effort had not exhausted their resources, and they rapidly filled up the gaps which had been made in their ranks.  The plains of Naharaim and the mountains of Cilicia supplied them with fresh chariots and foot-soldiers in the place of those they had lost, and bands of mercenaries were furnished from the table-lands of Asia Minor, so that when Ramses II. reappeared in Syria, he found himself confronted by a completely fresh army.  Khatusaru, having profited by experience, did not again attempt a general engagement, but contented himself with disputing step by step the upper valleys of the Litany and Orontes.  Meantime his emissaries spread themselves over Phoenicia and Kharu, sowing the seeds of rebellion, often only too successfully.  In the king’s VIIIth year there was a general rising in Galilee, and its towns—­Galaput in the hill-country of Bit-Aniti, Merorn, Shalama, Dapur, and Anamaim*—­had to be reduced one after another.

     * Episodes from this war are represented at Karnak.  The list
     of the towns taken, now much mutilated, comprised twenty-
     four names, which proves the importance of the revolt.