...I have listened to the messages you have sent me. You have asked me about the waiving of all administrative and legal claims incumbent on the northern bedouin tribe of Neferin. I answer: It is not appropriate to waive these claims. Should you waive the claims against them, their relatives, the Mepha tribe, who are now staying on the other side of the Qaa Oasis to the south, will hear about this preferential treatment and be so angry with them that they will not come back here to their home grounds. Therefore do not waive the claims against the northern tribe under any circumstances. On the contrary, reprimand them severely in the following terms: "If the king goes on an expedition, everybody down to the youngsters should immediately assemble. Any whose men are not all assembled commits a sacrilege against the king even if he leaves only one man behind!" Reprimand them in exactly this way. Under no circumstances should you cancel the claims against them...