Then after it was done, Pharaoh her father and his councillors would
wait upon her and ask if this man was pleasing to her. Being wise, Tua
would give no direct answer, only of most of them she was rid in this
way.

She demanded that the writing of the dream of her mother, Ahura, should
be brought and read before her, and when it had been read she pointed
out that Amen promised to her a royal lover, and that these chiefs and
generals were not royal, therefore it was not of them that Amen spoke,
nor did she dare to turn her eyes on one whom the god had forbidden to
her.

Of others who declared that they were kings, but who, being unable to
leave their countries, were represented by ambassadors, she said that
not having seen them she could say nothing. When they appeared at the
Court of Egypt, she would consider them.

So at length only one suitor was left, the man whom she knew well
Pharaoh and his councillors desired that she should take as husband.
This was Amathel, the Prince of Kesh, whose father, an aged king, ruled
at Napata, a great city far to the south, situated in a land that was
called an island because the river Nile embraced it in its two arms.
It was said that after Egypt this country was the richest in the whole
world, for there gold was so plentiful that men thought it of less value
than copper and iron; also there were mines in which beautiful stones
were found, and the soil grew corn in abundance.

Moreover, once in the far past, a race of Pharaohs sprung from this city
of Napata, had sat on the throne of Egypt, until at length the people of
Egypt, headed by the priests, had risen and overthrown them because