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She was living the life of a British woman, she was as much a Gorgio in her daily existence as this man be side her. Manitou was as much home nay, it was a thousand times more home than the shifting habitat of the days when they wandered from the Caspians to John o' Groat's.
The Caspians make so much account sometimes of such great dogs that every able man would nourish sundry of them in his house of set purpose, to the end they should devour their carcases after their deaths thinking the dog's bellies to be the most honourable sepulchres.
She was living the life of a British woman, she was as much a Gorgio in her daily existence as this man be side her. Manitou was as much home nay, it was a thousand times more home than the shifting habitat of the days when they wandered from the Caspians to John o' Groat's.
Besides these were the Persian cavalry; the nomad Sagartii, who carried with them nooses, in which they sought to entangle their foe; the Medes and the Indian horse, which last had also chariots of war drawn by steeds or wild asses; the Bactrians and Caspians, equipped alike; the Africans, who fought from chariots; the Paricanians; and the Arabians with their swift dromedaries, completed the forces of the cavalry, which amounted to eighty thousand, exclusive even of chariots and the camels.
The same author states and Bruhier corroborates the assertion that the Parthians, Medes, Iberians, Caspians, and a few others had such a horror and aversion of the corruption and decomposition of the dead and of their being eaten by worms that they threw out the bodies into the open fields to be devoured by wild beasts, a part of their belief being that persons so devoured would not be entirely extinct, but enjoy at least a partial sort of life in their living sepulchres.
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