20 MANUAL FOR YOUNG SPORTSMEN. 
brightest educational gems in a Persian prince’s diadem. 
We learn from Xenophon, soldier, hunter, philosopher, 
historian, that wherever, on the line of the long march of 
the Ten-thousand from Sardis up to Babylon, there was 
found a royal residence, it was accompanied by a great 
pleasure park and preserve of wild animals, some of them 
the savage carnivora, which Cyrus, he says, hunted on 
horseback, when he desired to take exercise. It is remark- 
able, moreover, that the name zapddecos—by no means 
a word of common occurrence in the Greek language, nor, 
so far as I remember, ever used of any enclosed ground 
within the confines of Greece proper, which is invariably 
applied to these pleasure parks maintained for hunting 
purposes—is identical with the word Paradise, otherwise 
rendered Garden of Hden, in its primary terrestrial signi- 
fication, which we have transferred to the seat of celestial 
beatitude and repose hereafter. 
The Greek and Roman writers, both in verse and 
prose, abound with allusions to this heroic pursuit and 
passion, which is attributed especially to their most favor- 
ite and famous demigods, The legends of the Nemean 
lion, the Caledonian boar, the tragical hunting of Acteon, 
the tales of Cephalus and Procris, of the wild Thessalian 
Centaurs, who nursed the martial vigor of the young 
Achilles on the marrow of hunted bears and lions; of 
Pheedra, Atalanta, Adonis the beloved of Venus, and above 
all Diana, the huntress queen, with her attendant train of 
nymphs, are familiar to all, and point evidently to a period, 
when, in the intervals of war and warlike forays, the chase 
was the daily delight and occupation of the patriarchal 
