id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt njp.32101064228768 Layard, Austen Henry, Sir A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard 1875 .txt text/plain 108867 6845 77 The remains of two smallwinged lions forming the entrance into a chamber, and a basrelief nine feet in height, representing a human figure raising Engaging two or three men to sleep near the sculptures, I returned to the village, and celebrated the day's discovery by a slaughter of sheep, of which all the Arab3 near partook. time not inopportune to visit Sofuk, the sheikh of the great nomad Arab tribe of Shammar, which occupies nearly the whole To the south of the co'ossal lions forming the principal entrance* to the great hall, the wall was continued by an eagleheaded figure resembling that on the opposite side. We passed through the small Chaldean village of Shoordh, now a heap of ruins, inhabited by a few wretched families, whose priest had been recently put to death by NurUllah Bey, the chief of the Hakkiari tribes. ./cache/njp.32101064228768.pdf ./txt/njp.32101064228768.txt