. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ast. The shepherd was accustomed toprovide himself with assist-ance in the shape of enor-mous dogs, who had no morehesitation in attacking beastsof prey than they had inpursuing game. In thesecombats the natural courageof the shepherd was stimu-lated by interest : for he waspersonally responsible for thesafety of his flock, and if a FIGHT WITH A LION. J lion should find an entranceinto one of the enclosures, its guardian was mulcted out of his wages of a sumequivalent to the damage aris-ing from his Fish-ing was not so much a pastim
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . ast. The shepherd was accustomed toprovide himself with assist-ance in the shape of enor-mous dogs, who had no morehesitation in attacking beastsof prey than they had inpursuing game. In thesecombats the natural courageof the shepherd was stimu-lated by interest : for he waspersonally responsible for thesafety of his flock, and if a FIGHT WITH A LION. J lion should find an entranceinto one of the enclosures, its guardian was mulcted out of his wages of a sumequivalent to the damage aris-ing from his Fish-ing was not so much a pastime /as a source of livelihood ; forfish occupied a high place in tfjthe bill of fare of the common ■folk. Caught by the line, net,or trap, it was dried in the sun,smoked, or The chasewas essentially the pastime ofthe great noble—the pursuit of Pthe lion and the bear in thewooded covers or the marshythickets of the river-bank; thepursuit of the gazelle, the ostrich,and bustard on the elevatedplains or rocky table-lands of the THE DOG IN THE The onager of Mesopotamia is a 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the terra-cotta tablets discovered by Loftus, Travels inChaldasa, etc., p. 258. 2 Meissneb, Beitrilge zum altbabylonischen Privatrecht, pp. 18, 144. See p. 156 of the present work for an account of the Chaldsean Ichthyopbagi. 4 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a terra-cotta tablet discovered by Sir H. Eawlinson in the ruinsof Babylon, and now in the British Museum. 5 The ostrich is often represented on Assyrian monuments (W. Houghton, The Birds of AssyrianMonuments, in the Transactions of the Bibl. Arch. Soc, vol. viii. pp. 100, 101,133, pi. xi.). The pursuitof the ostrich and bustard is described by Xenophon {Anabasis, I. v. 1-3) during the march of theyounger Cyrus across Mesopotamia. FISHING AND HUNTING. 769 very beautiful animal, with its grey glossycoat, and its lively and rapid action. If itis disturbed, it gives forth a cry, kicks up itsheels,
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