9. So then when the Arabian king had given the pledge of friendship to the men who had come to him from Cambyses, he contrived as follows:-he took skins of camels and filled them with water and loaded them upon the backs of all the living camels that he had; and having so done he drove them to the waterless region and there awaited the army of Cambyses.
9. Beraz, arabiar erregeak Kambysesen partetik etorritako mandatariekin hitzarmena egin zuenean, honelako egintzak bideratu zituen: gamelu-larruzko zahagiak urez bete eta bizirik zituen gamelu guztiei gaineratu zizkien eta, hori egin ondoren, basamortura gidatu zituen, eta hemen Kambysesen gudarosteari itxaron zion.