and that in his time all Egypt except the district of Thebes was a swamp, and none of the regions were then above water which now lie below the lake of Moiris, to which lake it is a voyage of seven days up the river from the sea:
Garai horretan, Thebasko nomoa izan ezik, Egypto osoa zingira omen zen, eta, bertan, egun itsasotik ibai gora zazpi egunez ureratuz heltzen den Meris aintziraz beheko lurralderik ez omen zen azaleratzen.