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Ca up and down his apartment By cock-crow he had decided that Nitetis should be forced to confess her guilt, and then be sent into the great harem to wait on the concubines Bartja, the destroyer of his happiness, should set off at once for Egypt, and on his return become the satrap of souilt of a brother's murder, but he knew his own teer, he ht kill one he hated so much, and therefore wished to remove him out of the reach of his passion

Two hours after the sun had risen, Ca on his fiery steed, far in front of a Countless train of followers armed with shields, swords, lances, bows and lassos, in pursuit of the game which was to be found in the immense preserves near Babylon, and was to be started fros

[The sas on their hunting expeditions, as on their journeys As the Persian nobility were very fond of hunting, their boys were taught this sport at an early age According to Strabo, kings thehty hunters in the inscriptions on their tombs A relief has been found in the ruins of Persepolis, on which the king is strangling a lion with his right arm, but this is supposed to have a historical, not a sy Similar representations occur on Assyrianwith a lion (relief at Khorsabad) is admirably copied in Delitzsch's edition of G Smith's Chaldean Genesis Layard discovered so his excavations; as, for instance, stags and wild boars a the reeds; and the Greeks often mention the immense troops of followers on horse and foot who attended the kings of Persia when they went hunting According to Xenophon, Cyrop I 2 II 4 every hunter was obliged to be armed with a bow and arroo lances, sword and shield In Firdusi's Book of Kings we read that the lasso was also a favorite weapon Hawking ell known to the Persians o Book of Kabus XVIII p 495 The boo birds as well by the Persians as by the ancient Egyptians and the present savage tribes of New Holland]