. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . CARUYING A THE ONAGER TAKEN WITH THE 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the terra-cotta tablets discovered by Loftus, Travelsin Chaldxa, etc., p. 260. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the Assyrian bas-relief of Nimrud (cf. Place, Ninive et VAssyrie,pl. 54, No. 3). See p. 559 of the present work for an illustration of onagers pierced by arrows iu thechase. 3 D 770 CHALDJEAN CIVILIZATION. paroxysms, it became somewhat calmer, and allowed itself to be Itwas finally tamed, if not to the extent of becoming useful in a
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . CARUYING A THE ONAGER TAKEN WITH THE 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the terra-cotta tablets discovered by Loftus, Travelsin Chaldxa, etc., p. 260. 2 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the Assyrian bas-relief of Nimrud (cf. Place, Ninive et VAssyrie,pl. 54, No. 3). See p. 559 of the present work for an illustration of onagers pierced by arrows iu thechase. 3 D 770 CHALDJEAN CIVILIZATION. paroxysms, it became somewhat calmer, and allowed itself to be Itwas finally tamed, if not to the extent of becoming useful in agriculture, atleast for the purposes of war : before the horse was known in Chaldaia, it wasused to draw the The original habitat of the horse was the greattable-lands of Central Asia: it is doubtful whether it was brought suddenlyinto the region of the Tigrus and Euphrates by some barbaric invasion, orwhether it was passed on from tribe to tribe, and thus gradually reached It soon became acclimatized, and its cross-breeding with the assled for cent
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