. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . FISHING IN THE RIVER: LIFTING A wild ox, and the ostrich, but did not disdain more humble game, such asthe porcupine and long-eared hare : nondescript packs, in which the jackaland the hyena ran side by side with the wolf-dog and the lithe Abyssinian 1 For the yearly value of the ancient fisheries, see Herodotus, ii. 149 (cf. iii. 91); Diodorus,i. 52. On the system of farm rents in use at the beginning of the century, cf. Michaud, Corre-spondance dOrient, vol. vi. letter 15G ; and Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, 2nd edit., vol. 124


. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . FISHING IN THE RIVER: LIFTING A wild ox, and the ostrich, but did not disdain more humble game, such asthe porcupine and long-eared hare : nondescript packs, in which the jackaland the hyena ran side by side with the wolf-dog and the lithe Abyssinian 1 For the yearly value of the ancient fisheries, see Herodotus, ii. 149 (cf. iii. 91); Diodorus,i. 52. On the system of farm rents in use at the beginning of the century, cf. Michaud, Corre-spondance dOrient, vol. vi. letter 15G ; and Wilkinson, Manners and Customs, 2nd edit., vol. 124-12G. 2 Isolated figure from a great fishing scene in the tomb of Khnumhotpû at Beni-Hasan ; drawnby Faucher-Gudin afler Eosellini, Monumenti Civili, pl. xxv. 1. 3 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from squeezes from the tomb of Ti. 62 THE NILE AND EGYPT. greyhound, scented and retrieved for their master the prey which he hadpierced with his At times a hunter, returning with the dead body of. HUNTING IN THE MARSHES : ENCOUNTERING AND SPEARING A HIPPOPOTAMUS/ the mother, would be followed by one of her young ; or a gazelle, but slightlywounded, would be taken to the village and healed of its hukt. Such animals, r


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