The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . laat el-Hossen, in the Bulletin de Ilnstitut Egyptien, Ist series, 1874, vol. 115, 116, 128-143), a conjecture approved by Mariette; it was more probably a town situated inthe plain, to the south of Bahr el-Kades, a little to the south-west of Tell Neby Mindoh whichrepresents Qodshu, and close to some forests which at that time covered the slopes of Lebanon, and,extending as they did to tlie bottom of the valley, concealed the position of the Khati from theEgyptians. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE TEAR V. AGAINST THE KHATI. 391 the chiefs
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . laat el-Hossen, in the Bulletin de Ilnstitut Egyptien, Ist series, 1874, vol. 115, 116, 128-143), a conjecture approved by Mariette; it was more probably a town situated inthe plain, to the south of Bahr el-Kades, a little to the south-west of Tell Neby Mindoh whichrepresents Qodshu, and close to some forests which at that time covered the slopes of Lebanon, and,extending as they did to tlie bottom of the valley, concealed the position of the Khati from theEgyptians. THE CAMPAIGN OF THE TEAR V. AGAINST THE KHATI. 391 the chiefs of the tribes united under the vile Prince of Khati, send us to giveinformation to your Majesty : We desire to serve the Pharaoh. We are desertingthe vile Prince of the Khati; he is close to Khalupu (Aleppo), to the north of thecity of Tunipa, whither he has rapidly retired from fear of the Pharaoh. ^ Thisstory had every appearance of probability; and the distance—Khalupu was atleast forty leagues away—explained why the reconnoitring parties of the. THE SHARLIANA GVAIID UF IIAMSES 11. Egyptians had not fallen in with any of the enemy. The Pharaoh, with thisinformation, could not decide whether to lay siege to Qodshu and wait until theHittites were forced to succour the town, or to push on towards the Euphratesand there seek the engagement which his adversary seemed anxious to chose the latter of the two alternatives. He sent forward the legions ofAmon, Phra, Phtah, and Siitkhu, which constituted the main body of his troops,and prepared to follow them with his household chariotry. At the verymoment when this division was being effected, the Hittites, who had beenrepresented by the spies as being far distant, were secretly massing theirforces to the north-east of Qodshu, ready to make an attack upon the Pharaohsflank as soon as he should set out on his march towards Khalupu. The enemy GtllETSSE, Textei Historiques dlptamlmuJ, in the Itecucil de Tramux, vol. viii. [i
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