Brugsch, Heinrich: Egypt under the pharaohs: a history derived entirely from the monuments (London, 1891)

134 WAR WITH THE LIBYAN TEIBES OH. ra.

The inscription in the tomb of Aahmes, the captain
of the ships, first mentions an expedition of Tehuti-mes I.
against the country of Khent-hen-nefer, an inclusive
term which comprehended all the known countries in
Africa situated to the west of the Nile as far as the
north coast of Libya, in contradistinction to Oust, now
called the Sudan. On a tract of such an enormous
extent there naturally lived an immense number of
tribes whose original stock was pure African; they are
the black or brown negro races called Nahasu on the
monuments.

Among these, lighter-coloured tribes of Semitic or
Cushite origin had settled themselves, whom a later
monument of the time of the Ptolemies calls by the
name of Senti (Sati ?). According to the situation of
these countries, and the habitations of these tribes, we
have substituted for the Egyptian appellations of Ta-
Khent and Cush the better known names of ' Nubia'
and ' Ethiopia;' and in like manner have translated
Nahasu by ' Negroes,' and Annu by ' Cushites.' For
all these nations as well as for the Egyptians, the Nile
afforded the one great waterway. In spite of all the
efforts of the inhabitants of these remote regions to bid
defiance to the Egyptian kings and to destroy their
monuments there are still traces enough left to prove their
supremacy. Among them the name of Tehuti-mes I. is
not wanting-; for the rocks in the neighbourhood of the
Cataracts of Herman (the Third Cataract) have pre-
served the remembrance of his great deeds, and relate
how—

' Tehuti-mes I. had taken possession of the throne of Horus, in
order to extend the boundaries of the Thebaid ; '—how ' In the ter-
ritory of the quarter of Thebes called Khefti-neb-s, the inhabitants
of the desert (Heru-sha), and the Aamu and all foreign nations
were obliged to work ;'—how ' The northern people of Khebau-neb
are bowed down and the Agabot (Libyans) are quelled ; '—how