I would send the archers of whom there are more than thirty thousand, under the command of Shabaka along that road which leads them past Amada.

On its farther side are low hills strewn with rocks.

Here I would let the archers take cover and wait for the breaking of the dawn.

Then beneath them they will see the most of the Eastern host and with such bows as ours they can sweep the plain from the hills almost to the Nile, and having a hundred arrows to a man, should slaughter the Easterns by the ten thousand, for when these turn to charge a shaft should pierce through two together." "Good again," said Tanofir.

"But what of the army of the Great King which lies upon this side of Amada ?" "I think that before the dawn, believing us so few, it will advance and with the first light begin to thread the swamp, and therefore we must keep five thousand archers to gall it as it comes.