Crossword-Solution: SUAN 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

His wife desired to have a large prawn that lived in the Baram river; so USAI built a dam across the river at LUBOK SUAN (a spot where the river is about 250 yards in width) and baled out the water below it, seizing the crocodiles with his fingers and whisking them out on to the bank.

Builders dragged blocks of stone, which had come from the quarries of Chennu and Suan, [The Syene of the Greeks, non, called Assouan at the first cataract.] on sledges to the site of a new temple; laborers poured water under the runners, that the heavily loaded and dried wood should not take fire.

The plundered man was leaving full of hope; but when the scribe who sat at the feet of the Regent enquired to whom the investigation of this encroachment of the troops should be entrusted, Ani said: "Each one must bring a victim to the war; it must remain among the things that are done, and cannot be undone." The Nomarch--[Chief of a Nome or district.]--of Suan, in the southern part of the country, asked for funds for a necessary, new embankment.

The Regent listened to his eager representation with benevolence, nay with expressions of sympathy; but assured him that the war absorbed all the funds of the state, that the chests were empty; still he felt inclined--even if they had not failed--to sacrifice a part of his own income to preserve the endangered arable land of his faithful province of Suan, to which he desired greeting.

From Suan,--[The modem Assuan at the first cataract.]--the prisoners may be conducted through the desert to the gold workings.