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Title: Nineveh and Babylon : a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894
Subjects: Nineveh (Extinct city) Babylon (Extinct city) Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ance, and shouting their war-cry. It was with difficultythat, with the assistance of Hormuzd, I was able to checkthis display of valour, and prevent them from renewing theengagement. The men and women of the village were stillfollowing the retreating horsemen, clamouring for variousarticles, such as cloaks and handkerchiefs, not yet restored.In the midst of the crowd of wranglers, a hare suddenlysprang from her form and darted over the plain. My grey-hounds, who had followed me from tlie house, immediately II.) HARE HUNT. 57 pursued her. This was too much for the Arabs ; their loveof the chase overcame even their propensity for appropriatingother peoples property; cattle, cloaks, swords, and kcffiehswere abandoned to their respective claimants, and the wholeband of marauders joined wildly in the pursuit. Before wehad reached the game we were far distant from Nimroud. Iseized the opportunity to conclude the truce, and Saleh withhis followers rode slowly back towards the ford of the Zab
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Excavated Chamber in which the Bronzes were discovered. (Nimroud.) to seek his brothers tents. I promised to visit the Howarin two or three days, and we parted with mutual assurancesof friendship. Two days after the attack upon Nimroud, I paid my pro-mised visit to the Howar. During my absence a new chamberhad been discovered in the north-west palace.* Its walls were * It was parallel to, and to the south of, the chamber marked AA, inthe plan of the north-west palace. (Nineveh and its Remains, p. 42.) 58 NINEVEH AND BABYLON. (Chap. of sun-dried brick, panelled round the bottom with iarge burntbricks, about three feet high. They were coated with bitu-men, and, like those forming the pavement, were inscribedwith the name and usual titles of the royal founder of thebuilding. In one corner was a well, the circular mouth ofwhich was formed by brickwork. Its sides were also brickeddown to the conglomerate rock, and holes had been left atregular intervals for descent. When first discovered i

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