[PLATE CXIX., Fig.

3.] The king meanwhile plied his bow, and covered the plain with carcasses, often striking a single beast with five or six shafts.
The number of lions destroyed at these royal _battues_ is very surprising.

In one representation no fewer than eighteen are seen upon the field, of which eleven are dead and five seriously wounded.

The introduction of trapped beasts would seem to imply that the game, which under the earlier monarchs had been exceedingly abundant,--failed comparatively under the later ones, who therefore imported it from a distance.

It is evident, however, that this scarcity was not allowed to curtail the royal amusement.