Still it will win through, though with loss, and find us waiting for it here shoulder to shoulder, rank upon rank with locked shields, against which horse and foot shall break in vain, for who shall drive a wedge through the Ethiopian squares that Shabaka has trained and that Bes, the Karoon, commands?
I say that they shall roll back like waves from a cliff; yes, again and again, growing ever fewer till the clamour of battle and the shouts of fear and agony reach their ears from beyond Amada where Shabaka and the archers do their work and the sight of the burning ships strikes terror in them and they fly." "Good again," said the holy Tanofir.

"But still many on both fronts will be left, for this army of Easterns is very vast.

And how will you deal with these, O Karema ?" "On these I would have Pharaoh with all his remaining strength pour from the northern and the southern gates of Amada, for so shall they be caught like wounded lions between two wild bulls and torn and trampled and utterly destroyed.

Only I know not how to tell Pharaoh what he must do, and when." "Good again," said the holy Tanofir, "very good.

And as for the telling of Pharaoh, well, I shall see him presently.