"To-morrow morning we are to carry a letter from her to the scribe of the mines, and if we encamp in the neighborhood she will send us some wine for carrying it." "The old red-beard scents wine as a fox scents a goose.

Let us encamp here; one never knows what may be picked up among the Mentu, and the superintendent said we were to encamp outside the oasis.

Put down your sacks, men! Here there is fresh water, and perhaps a few dates and sweet Manna for you to eat with it.
["Man" is the name still given by the Bedouins of Sinai to the sweet gum which exudes from the Tamarix mannifera.

It is the result of the puncture of an insect, and occurs chiefly in May.

By many it is supposed to be the Manna of the Bible.] But keep the peace, you two quarrelsome fellows--Huni and Nebsecht." Bent-Anat's journey to the Emerald-Hathor was long since ended.