However, those new-fangled wheels of yours " are more dangerous than a regiment of Hyksos. "If I am to have five hundred of those contraptions of yours for my new chariot division, I will need a thousand of those cursed brutes to pull them.
I have already sent Hui to gather them up," he assured me. "Don't worry that battered head of yours". I tried to sit up, but my head ached abominably and I groaned, then clutched his arm as it all came back to me. "Taita, what about your chariots? Can they not give battle to the Hyksos?" I must know what the gods require of us." I ask you to work the Mazes of Ammon-Ra for me.
But I must ask you now before I make the final decision. "Taita, I have not asked you before, because I know how dearly it costs you.
"What do you have to tell us?"īut what truly filled me with joy was that he had forgiven me at last, and we were friends once more. Tanus ordered him into the council chamber, and the messenger fell to his knees before Queen Lostris. He had fled to us on the current and the wind, so his news was only a day old. While we thus debated, another messenger arrived, this time from the south. We cannot prevail against their chariots." "I can fight on, of course," Tanus agreed. The messenger, who had expected to be killed, kissed Queen Lostris" sandals. None of us spoke until Tanus had sent the man away with orders that he be fed and cared for. "Now that he is across the river, can you check the barbarian?"
She addressed her first question to Tanus. QUEEN LOSTRIS CALLED HER WAR COUNCIL when the news of the Hyksos crossing reached us in the Palace of Memnon. They are our only hope for eventual victory." If I am given the time and the material, I can build new and better chariots with wheels that do not burst, but I cannot replace the horses. Salitis will overwhelm and destroy us very easily. My chariots are swifter than those of Salitis, but my men cannot match his in skill and training. "Your Majesty, I have forty chariots that I can send in to meet him.
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