Note 946 — Chapter XXXV · FISH—VIVARIA—THE FIRST INSTANCE OF POACHING

Another translation (R. Asiatic Proc., XIX. pp. 124-5) renders these lines “creatures of the Great Sea which the King of Egypt had sent as a gift, and entrusted to the care of men of his own country,” either as carriers or permanent attendants. But see p. 53 of the Introduction to The Annals of the Kings of Assyria, op. cit. Dr. St. Clair Tisdall writes: “If Nam-su-hu (Budge and King’s translation) be right, it is evidently the Egyptian name ’msuhu = crocodile, with the plural Na prefixed. Egypt in Arabic is still Mīsr.”