“_Zalmu_ my envoy whom I send to you is responsible to us if ... have plundered. I have made _Biriyamaza_ responsible for ... (If) again they have plundered, I have made _Pamakhu_ responsible in part for ... to your land complete.
“... they have sworn ... let my envoy ... to the presence of my brother ... let him be sent back to me ... his message: let him salute ...”
8 B.—The same salutation from _Burnaburias_ to Amenophis IV. The letter continues:
“For this also my brother we speak with good-will eagerly, and we cause this to be said thus with eagerness (or speed) in reply. As for us we have been troubled indeed. Lo! the merchants who have returned with a charge, from the land of Canaan, have spoken in my hearing. They were anxious on account of the charge from my brother’s presence, as _Sumatta_(424) the son of _Malumme_ from the city of _Khinnatunu_,(425) in the land of _Canaan_, and _Sutatna_ son of _Sarratu_ of the city of _Acca_(426) sent their soldiers: they perceived my merchants, and they spoiled our ... I sent to you ... let him tell you.
“The _Canaanites_ in your country, and the Kings ... in your country have violently cut off ... the silver that they carried—a present ... And the men who are my servants ... has smitten them. He destroyed our (wealth?); and as these chiefs he has caused to be slain, it is clear that the man is, indeed, my foe. And, indeed, they are slaying a chief of your envoys: when he was an envoy between us he was slain, and his people have been hostile to you, and the chief my foe, _Sumatta_, dogging his steps, caused him to be slain; he saw him and slew him. And the other chief _Sutatna_ the _Acchoite_ (though at first they repelled him?) sent his chiefs against him ... he said thus. Behold this ... ask as to this, truly you know ... I have sent thee as a present one _manah_ of precious stones ... my envoy speedily ... truly my brother has known ... do not (blame?) my envoy ... let him be speedily sent...”
These two last letters of Burnaburias are important as showing the disturbances in Syria, also mentioned by Dusratta (23 B.) early in the reign of Amenophis IV.
28 B.—A very broken tablet containing a long list of presents supposed to have been sent by Burnaburias, and consisting mainly of gold and gems.