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I then cut him in two parts, and put sand between the parts, that he should not appear again.

“Na.nefer.ka.ptah then went to the place where he found the box.

I He uncovered a box of iron, and opened it; he found then a box of born and opened that; then he found a box of sycamore wood. And opened that; again, he found a box of ivory and ebony, and opened that; yet, he found a box of silver, and opened that; and then he found ‘ a box of gold; he opened that, and found the book in it. He took the book from the golden box, and read a page of spells from it.

He enchanted the heaven and the earth, the abyss, the mountains, and the sea; he knew what the birds of the sky, the fish of the deep, and the beasts of the hills all said. He read another page of the spells, and saw I the sun shining in the sky, with all the gods, the full moon, and the stars I in their shapes; he saw the fishes of the deep, for a divine power was I present that brought them up from the

One went to tell unto his Majesty, “Two great Persea trees have grown, as a great marvel of his Majesty, in the night by the side of the great gate of his Majesty.” And there was rejoicing for them in all the land, and there were offerings made to them.

And when the days were multiplied after these things, his Majesty was adorned with the blue crown, with garlands of flowers on his neck, and he was upon the chariot of pale gold, and he went out from the palace to behold the Persea trees: the princess also was going out with horses behind his Majesty. And his Majesty sat beneath one of the Persea trees, and it spake thus with his wife: “Oh, thou deceitful one, I am Bata, I am alive, though I have been evilly entreated. I knew who caused the acacia to be cut down by Pharaoh at my dwelling. I then became an ox, and thou causedst that I should be killed.”

Persea trees of Pharaoh

And many days after these things the princess stood at the table of Pharaoh, a