482 The Hunting Grounds 



is very curiously painted in the oriental style, with 

 Arabic inscriptions and devices ; and were shown the 

 arms of honour presented to him by the ex-royal 

 family of France, the Emperor of Austria, and divers 

 sheikhs and Arab chiefs, by whom he is much be- 

 loved and esteemed, not only for his coolness and 

 address in lion-hunting, but also on account of his 

 knowledge of the Mussulman character, and his 

 familiarity with their language, habits, and customs. 



His kindness, integrity, and anxious solicitude for 

 their welfare, whilst employed in the Bureau Arabe, 

 were very justly appreciated by the sons of Ishmael ; 

 and in the goorbis of the douars a stranger is often 

 interrogated as to the happiness of the " Conqueror of 

 the lion," and as to his probable return. 



Tuesday, 1 6th. The weather still unpropitious ; 

 snow and sleet falling in the morning. It however 

 cleared up a little in the afternoon, and we visited the 

 tomb of the old Roman banker, which was discovered 

 some short time ago to the left of the Port de la 

 Breche, by the side of the scarp. 



The tomb consists of two stories, the lower about 

 ten feet below the surface of the ground, and is in 

 the form of a square, which is covered with some very 

 fine tesselated pavement, in very good preservation, 

 with arched vaults all round, containing bones. On a 

 huge stone slab, which had covered a coffin, with 

 much difficulty I copied the following inscription, 



