When I got to the little one there, she told me how much money the leech Nebsecht had given her, and offered to give it me to save Pentaur; then it passed through my mind--that may go to Hum's children, and in return he will let himself be shipped off to Ethiopia.

I ran to the harbor, spoke to the man, found him ready and willing, gave the money to his wife, and at night when the prisoners were shipped I contrived the exchange Pentaur came with me on my boat under the name of the other, and Huni went to the south, and was called Pentaur.

I had not deceived the man into thinking he would stop at Chennu.

I told him he would be taken on to Ethiopia, for it is always impossible to play a man false when you know it is quite easy to do it.

It is very strange! It is a real pleasure to cheat a cunning fellow or a sturdy man, but who would take in a child or a sick person?
Huni certainly would have gone into the fire-pots of hell without complaining, and he left me quite cheerfully.