The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-12-31
NtMROD NOT A MYTH.
Prof. Sayce Finds Proof OF the Exist
ence OF the Mighty Hunter.

ence OF the Mighty Hunter.
Everything comes to him who waits
and If Prof. Sayce be we'll justified in
what he has written from Assouan, in
Egypt, historical justice is about to be
done to everybody's old friend, Nlmrod,
says the London Telegraph. Hitherto
it has always been doubtful whether
this ancient sportsman was or was not
a veritable parsonage, but thu learned
professor is now of opinion that he
has found the name of the Mighty Hun
ter surely and safely registered in the
cuneiform inscriptions. If it be as stat
ed the full name of Nimrod was Nazl
Muruda the Kassu and he lived at Bah
ylon about fifty years before the date
OF the Exodus, a contemporary OF the
father of that Assyrian king who re-
stored Ninevah and founded Calah.
Nazi Muruda is near enough to MIN
rod" to have been quite possibly the
true appellation of this famous person
when he was, to use an American
phrase, 'tu hum" Arabic scholars
can never have failed to notice the
similarity between the Mighty Hunters
title and the word "Nimr," which
means a tiger. Any further particu-
lars from the same erudite quarters Will
of course be very welcome to us in
the west, particularly when a new club
has lately beer started in London bear
ing Nimrod's name. At the same time
we are bound by faithful scholarship to
point out that, like many another
sporting man, the intimate character
of Nimrod may not be able to bear toe
fierce a light. The particulars which
are given of him in the koran are Of
/ a perfectly distressing kind. In chap
ter H., entitled THE Cow" Nimrod is
} represented as %disputing with Abra'
: ham; and t. show himself equal to tnt
Almighty in power as to life ant
l death he has two innocent men brough
before him, one Of whom the hunte.
> dispatches, while the other he fay
! alive. In Sura XVI. Of the koran
entitled The Bee" allusion is made t.
the tower which Nimrod built in Ba
: bel and carried to the height of 800
l cubits, intending to ascend to heavel
U and wage war with the angels; bu
Allah frustrated his attempt, over
throwing the presumptuous structur
by an earthquake. In Sura XXI, en-
II titled THE Prophets" another legen
} is told rejecting very badly upo
IL Nimrod's private life. He is said t
II have filled a vast space full of WOO
le at Cutha and after setting it on til
j TO have cast Abraham upon 1t, boun
v hand and foot; but the angel Gabrl'
III came to the assistance of the Frien
III of God, so that nothing about hi
III was burned except the cords. 1t
lie added that the fierce flames BEGAN
III an odoriferou6 air and the burnll
III faggots a pleasant meadow, though II
s. other people it was so hot that 2,O'
unbelievers were consumed. Fro
rs the same source we gather that MY
ne rod in his last days was destroyed
a sDecia1 messenger from the A
ne mighty in the shape of a gnat, whl'
v penetrated to his brain and caused
Is death with intolerable pa.n-'l1ea
re en- as D'HerE2lot remarks, "des'
rd ing to punish by one of the smallest
N. lis creatures the tyrant who he'd cal
ne himself lord of ALL" We gr.cve to
ne call these legendary particulars at
ne moment when history appears inc.!n
'as to furnish us with unexpected rev
l?tions as regards this prototype OF
sporting world. Most sportsmen {
ID sportsmanlike and we must not I
readily believe, at least until Pr
IN Sayce has concluded his research
lay that the earliest M. F. II. in the VIC
raj and keenest pursuer of big ga
Try could lightly do anything derogatt
IFS, to the conduct Of a true lover Of
H. chase