The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ally died at his feet, not suf-fering the attendants to remove him. E 50 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. II. varioTis streams and canals, concealing himself duringthe day, and at night wandering abroad in search ofhis prey, to obtain which he will approach with bold-ness to the very skirts of an Arab encampment. Hisroar is not deep or terrible, but like the cry of a childin pain, or the first wail of the jackal after sunset,only louder, clearer, and mo
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . ally died at his feet, not suf-fering the attendants to remove him. E 50 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. II. varioTis streams and canals, concealing himself duringthe day, and at night wandering abroad in search ofhis prey, to obtain which he will approach with bold-ness to the very skirts of an Arab encampment. Hisroar is not deep or terrible, but like the cry of a childin pain, or the first wail of the jackal after sunset,only louder, clearer, and more prolonged. Twovarieties of the lion appear to exist: the one is mane-less, while the other has a long mane, which is blackand shaggy. The former is now the more commonin the country; but the latter, which is the fiercer ofthe two,^ is the one ordinarily represented upon thesculptures. The lioness is nearly as much feared asthe lion; when her young are attacked, or when shehas lost them, she is perhaps even more roar is said to be deeper and far more imposingthan that of the male.^ The other animals require but few remarks. Gla-. Wild-sow and pigs, from Koyunjil ^ The inliahitants call the mane-less lions trnc believers, thosewith manes ghnours or former, they saj, will spare aMussulman if he prays, the latternever. (Layard, Nin. and Bab. p. 487, note.) A similar distinction,I learn from Sir Gardner Wilkinson,is made at Cairo between the greenand the black crocodile. ^ Loftus, Chaldaa and tSusiana,p. 259. Chap. II, BIRDS. 51 zelles are plentiful in the more sandy regions; buffa-loes abound in the marshes of the south, where theyare domesticated, and form the chief wealth of theinhabitants ;* troops of jackals are common, while thehygena and wolf are comparatively rare; the wild-boar frequents the river-banks and marshes, as de-picted in the Assyrian sculptures; hares abound inthe country about Baghdad ; porcupines and badgersare found in most places
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