text: [1] Now as the grain and provisions required for supplying the fleets in the Red Sea and the greater part of the commercial population on its coasts must have been drawn from Egypt by the port of Suez and as Egypt must have afforded one of the most valuable markets for the produce of Arabia and India it is not surprising that Sesonchis made great endeavours to obtain a share in a branch of commerce from which he had seen Solomon derive such wealth