I captured lions; I took crocodiles. I seized the people of Wawat (Nubia). I captured the Mazoi (nomadic Nubians). I caused the Bedouin to go like hounds.
-Amenemhat I, XII Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, 20th C BCE
Amenemhat I launched the first of the XII Dynasty’s many raids into Nubia, recorded in his poem, Instructions to Sesostris. I am thinking of the modern equivalent, British accounts of punitive forays and gentlemen’s exploratories going South, like Churchill’s The River War and Bruce’s Travels. And some Kababish still ride North as far as the Cairo camel market.