"It will be easy to the king's pioneer to find the little half-hidden house again-- [The title here rendered pioneer was that of an officer whose duties were those at once of a scout and of a Quarter-Master General.

In unknown and comparatively savage countries it was an onerous post.
-- Translator.] besides, you share my guilt, for," she added, turning to the priest, "I confess that the misfortune happened because I would try with my horses to overtake Paaker's Syrian racers, which he declared to be swifter than the Egyptian horses.

It was a mad race." "And Amon be praised that it ended as it did," exclaimed the master of the ceremonies.

"Packer's chariot lies dashed in pieces in the valley, and his best horse is badly hurt." "He will see to him when he has taken the physician to the house of the paraschites," said the princess.

"Dost thou know, Penbesa--thou anxious guardian of a thoughtless girl--that to-day for the first time I am glad that my father is at the war in distant Satiland ?"--[Asia].
"He would not have welcomed us kindly!" said the master of the ceremonies, laughing.
"But the leech, the leech!" cried Bent-Anat.