to protect and defend it against the enemy, and that officers of the king, as well as stonecutters and other workpeople, accompanied it, Hannu continues: Then I reached the Great Green (wȝḏ-wr). Then I made the ships and I dispatched them with all manner of things and made for them a great oblation of cattle, oxen and gazelles. When I returned from the Great Green, I performed what His Majesty commanded: I brought for him every product that I found on the shores of God's Land. I descended by WSg (unidentified) (and) Ro-Henu (Wadi Hammamat). I brought for him splendid blocks of stone for the temple statues. Principal stations In his account of the journey Hannu speaks of five principal stations at which the wanderer halted, and man and beast (then probably the ass, the only beast of burden proved to have been used in those times) strengthened themselves for their further progress by enjoying the fresh drinking water. This is also the same road that, in the time of the Ptolemies and Romans, led from Coptos in an easterly direction to the harbour of Leucos Limen (now Qossier) on the Red Sea; the great highway and commercial thoroughfare of merchants of all countries, who traded in the wonderful products of Arabia and India; the bridge of the nations, which of old united Asia and Europe. See also List of explorers References Bibliography J. H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, Part One, Chicago 1906, §§427-433 Brugsch, H. K., & Smith, P. (1881). A history of Egypt under the pharaohs: Derived entirely from the monuments, to which is added a discourse on the exodus of the Israelites. Vol I. Page 135 - 139. Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times, Princeton University Press 1991, p. 10 Couyat, Jean and Montet, Pierre. Les inscriptions hieroglyphiques et hieratiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât. Cairo: Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1913, pp. 81-84 Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, Antiquity, Antiquity Publications 1996, p. 241 James P. Allen: The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom in: Strudwick, Nigel and Taylor, John H.: The Theban Necropolis Past, Present and Future, London 2003, 14 - 29. James P. Allen: Some Theban Officials of the Early Middle Kingdom in: Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, Boston 1996, 1 - 26 William Christopher Hayes: Career of the Great Steward Henenu under