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

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them accurately according to number and weight, and
enter them in the account-books of Pharaoh. The
tributes of the tribes of the South, of the land of Punt,
of the lands of Euthen and Kefa, occupied the first
place in the registers.

If Lepsius's explanation of the Usem-metal as elec-
trum be right, according to a representation in a tomb
mentioned below, not less than 36,692 lbs. of it were
carried into the treasuries at Thebes under Tehuti-mes
ILL; that is, a mass of 67 cwts., which, considering the
rarity of this precious metal, seems hardly probable.
This TJsem seems much more likely to have been a
mixture of metals, resembling our brass, in which
copper formed the principal ingredient.

The tributes of the countries situated directly on the
Nile in Upper and Lower Nubia were delivered to the
Egyptian governor of the Southern country. In the
time of Tehuti-mes III. the ' king's son' Nahi occupied
this post, and, according to the inscriptions in the rock-
grotto of Ellesieh,

he filled the king's house with gold, and made joyful the counte-
nance of the king by the products of the lands of the South. The
recompense for this is a reward from the lord for Nahi the king's
son and the governor of the South.

After his brilliant campaigns on Canaanitish soil,
the return of the king to Egypt must have been one
grand triumphal procession. The sight of the captive
princes, their children, and their subjects, in the train
of the young hero; the numberless troops of horses,
oxen, goats, and rarer animals—in a word, all the
riches of the then known world—could not fail to make
a deep impression on the Egyptians, and must have
inclined the hearts of all to the young sovereign.

The first thing was to offer homage and thanks-
giving to the gods for the victories he had won. The