The New York coach-maker's magazine . cipitous heights inaccessible to chariots,to the assault of a fortified town, or for any other purpose,they took charge of the horses, and keeping them in somesecure place, they awaited his return or followed at ashort distance, and a second car with fresh horses was al-ways ready in the rear, in order to provide against acci-dent or the still less welcome chance of a defeat.(2 Chronicles, xxxv., 24.) As in later times among thepeople of Greece this employment was neither servile orignoble, and if Hector (II., 325), Nestor (II., 16),Ulysses (II., 513), and
The New York coach-maker's magazine . cipitous heights inaccessible to chariots,to the assault of a fortified town, or for any other purpose,they took charge of the horses, and keeping them in somesecure place, they awaited his return or followed at ashort distance, and a second car with fresh horses was al-ways ready in the rear, in order to provide against acci-dent or the still less welcome chance of a defeat.(2 Chronicles, xxxv., 24.) As in later times among thepeople of Greece this employment was neither servile orignoble, and if Hector (II., 325), Nestor (II., 16),Ulysses (II., 513), and others were not ashamed to actin this capacity, Egyptian officers of note, in like manner,undertook the management of their own cars, and pridedthemselves on their skill in driving asjavelin and bow. Wilkinson says : In driving, the Egyptians used awhip, like the heroes and charioteers of Homer ; and this,or a short stick, was generally employed even for beastsof burden and for oxen at the plough in preference to the in wielding the. ANCIENT WHIPS. goad. The whip consisted of a smooth round woodenhandle, and a single or double thong; it sometimes hada lash of leather or string about two feet in length, eithertwisted or plaited ; and a loop being attached to thelower end, the archer was enabled to use the bow whileit was suspended from his wrist. Often when one chieftain encountered another on thefield of battle, he leaped down from his car, and substitu-ting the spear, battle-axe or falchion for the bow, he closedin with the enemy; the lifeless body of the foe, left on thefield, being stripped of its arms by his a wounded adversary, incapable of further re-sistance, having claimed and obtained the mercy of the victor, was carried from the field in his chariot; and the or-dinary captives, who laiddown their arms andyielded to the Egyptians,were treated as prisonersof war, and were sentbound to the rear underan escort to be presentedto the monarch and tograc
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