THE NIGHT OF FEAR Then came the hail, and some months after the hail the locusts, and Egypt went mad with woe and terror.

It was known to us, for with Ki and Bakenkhonsu in the palace we knew everything, that the Hebrew prophets had promised this hail because Pharaoh would not listen to them.
Therefore Seti caused it to be put about through all the land that the Egyptians should shelter their cattle, or such as were left to them, at the first sign of storm.

But Pharaoh heard of it and issued a proclamation that this was not to be done, inasmuch as it would be an insult to the gods of Egypt.

Still many did so and these saved their cattle.

It was strange to see that wall of jagged ice stretching from earth to heaven and destroying all upon which it fell.