. Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 .. . n dog. The lion appears, from thesetablets, to have been indigen-ous to the Chaldsean marshesin very early times. I muchdoubt, however, if the mo-dern Arab would dare, single-handed, to attack the infu-riated beast while satiatinghis hunger on his prey. Fre-quently, during my stay atSinkara, the deep grunt ofthe lioness was audible uponthe mounds or close to theprecincts of the camp. I hadmany times before heard whatis calle
. Travels and researches in Chaldæa and Susiana; with an account of excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shúsh, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849-52 .. . n dog. The lion appears, from thesetablets, to have been indigen-ous to the Chaldsean marshesin very early times. I muchdoubt, however, if the mo-dern Arab would dare, single-handed, to attack the infu-riated beast while satiatinghis hunger on his prey. Fre-quently, during my stay atSinkara, the deep grunt ofthe lioness was audible uponthe mounds or close to theprecincts of the camp. I hadmany times before heard whatis called the roar of the lion on the banks of the Tigris, butit considerably disappointed my expectations. The pre-conceived idea of a lions roar is of somethino- noble and o terrible in the extreme ; this, however, is not the casewith the lion of Mesopotamia; the sound which he uttersis like the squall of a child in pain, or the first cry of thejackal at sunset, but infinitely louder, clearer, and moreprolonged. The nocturnal wail of the lioness at Sinkara in searchof her cubs was truly imposing, and struck terror intothe hearts of my nearly naked Arabs. I could scarcely. Clay Tablet from Sinkara. 260 THE DEATH OF TOGA.
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