# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1911_S506
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

506 Die Assyriologie und das Alté Testament.

amount orf exertion and energy displayed both by limbs and throat,
Wonld not be long in taking place.“ 12) Inzwischen war es Abend ge⸗
worden. Die ganze Nacht hindurch pfiffen, tobten und tanzten die
Araber. Am folgenden Tag wurde das Ungeheuer ohne weitere Zwi⸗
schenfälle wohlbehalten auf den Karren geladen, um zum Tigris ge⸗
schleppt zu werden. It (the cart) was soon reade to be dragged to
the river. Buffaloes were harneéssed to the voke, but although men
pulled wäth ropes fastened to the rings attached to the wheels and
10 other parts of the cart, the animals, féeeling the weight behind
them. refused to move. We were compelled, therefore, to take them
out, ... and the Arabs, assisted by the people of Naifa and Nimroud,
dragged the cart. The procession was forméd. I rodé first to point.
out the road. Then eame the musicians with their drums and fifes,
drumming and fifing with might and main. The cart followed,
dragged by about three hundred men. all sereeching at the top of
their voices.“ Endlich, nach einer Reihe von andern Zwischenfällen,
darunter auch ein Streik seiner Araber, hatte Layard das Vergnügen,
den geflügelten Stier wohlerhalten auf einem eigens hierzu errichteten,
von sechshundert luftgefüllten Schafhäuten getragenen Floß im Tigris
zu sehen, um nach Bagdad und von da nach England transportiert zu
werden. Mit dem Stier wurde auch ein geflügelter Löwe, der in der⸗
selben Weise aus dem Hügel zum Fluß geschafft wurde, stromabwärts
geschickt. Iwatched the rafts until they disappearéd behind a pro-
jeécting bank forming a distant réach in the river. I could not for-
bear musing upon the strange destinv of their burdens, which, after
adorning the palaces of the Assyrian kings, the ob5ects of wonder and
maybe the worship of thousands, had been buried unknovn for
centuries beneath a soil trodden by Persians under Cyrus, by Grecks
under Alexander, and by Arabs under the first descendants of their
Prophet. They were now to visit India, to cross the most distant seas
of the southern hemisphere, and to be finally placed in the British
Museum. Who can venture to foretell how their strange career
will end“) „Wonderful! wonderful!“ sprach der arabische Scheik
zu Layard. „There is surely no God but God, and Mohammed is
His Prophet. In the name of the Most High, tell me, O Bey, what
Fou are going to do with these stones. Can it be that your people
learn wisdom from them, or is it that they are to go to the palace
of your Queen, who, with the rest of the unbelicvers, worships these
idols? . .. But God is great, God is great! Here are stones which
have béen buried ever since the time of the holy Noah — peace be
with him! Perhaps they have been underground before the deluge.
For twelve hundred years have the true believers (and, praise be to
God! all true wisdom is with them alone) been settled in this

12) Vineven and Its Remains, vol. II, p. 64 sqq.
13) Vineveh and Its Remains, vol. II, p. 85 sq.