The medication which your physician applied to me in a dressing is extremely good. The wound has begun to disappear; and slowly, slowly, the medication is about to remove it. Now, I am sending to you with this letter the physician Samsi-TukuIti; let him have a look at that medicine and then send him back immediately.

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A short time ago I wrote to my lord as follows: "A lion was caught in the loft of a house in Nener. My lord should write me whether this lion should remain in that same loft until the arrival of my lord, or whether I should have it brought to my lord." But letters from my lord were slow in coming and the lion has been in the loft for five days. Although they threw him a dog and a pig, he refused to eat them. I was worrying: "Heaven forbid that this lion pine away." I became scared, but eventually I got the lion into a wooden cage and loaded it on a boat to have it

brought to my lord.

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There is now ice available in Daradan, much of it. Place your servants there to watch over it so they can keep it safe for you. They can bring it to you regularly as long as you stay there. And if no good wine is available there for you to drink, send me word and I will have good wine sent to you to drink. Since your home town is far away, do write me whenever you need anything, and I will always give you what you need.

The correspondances of Semur, Ankrahmun's famed zoologist