ll thoughts. Then I kissed the end of your mantle, and I
walked behind you."

_Apollonius_--"After Ctesiphon, we entered into the land of Babylon."

_Damis_--"And the satrap uttered an exclamation on seeing a man so
pale."

_Antony_, to himself--"Which signifies----?"

_Apollonius_--"The King received me standing near a throne of silver, in
a circular hall studded with stars, and from a cupola hung, from unseen
threads, four great golden birds, with both wings extended."

_Antony_, musing--"Are there such things on the earth?"

_Damis_--"That is, indeed, a city--Babylon! Everyone is rich there! The
houses, painted blue, have gates of bronze, with staircases that lead
down to the river."

Making a sketch with his stick on the ground:

"Like that, do you see? And then there are temples, squares, baths,
aqueducts! The palaces are covered with copper! and then the interior,
if you only saw it!"

_Apollonius_--"On the northern wall rises a tower, which supports a
second, a third, a fourth, a fifth; and there are three others besides!
The eighth is a chapel with a bed in it. Nobody enters there but the
woman chosen by the priests for the God Belus. The King of Babylon made
me take up my quarters in it."

_Damis_--"They scarcely paid any heed to me. I was left, too, to walk
about the streets by myself. I enquired into the customs of the people;
I visited the workshops; I examined the huge machines which bring water
into the gardens. But it annoyed me to be separated from the Master."

_Apollonius_--"At last, we left Babylon; and, by the light of the moon,
we suddenly saw a wild mare."

_Damis_--"Yes, indeed! she sprang forth on her iron hoofs; she neighed
like an ass; she galloped amongst the rocks. He burst into angry abuse
of her; and she disappeared."

_Antony_, aside--"Where can they have come from?"

_Apollonius_--"At Taxilla, capital of five thousand fortresses,
Phraortes, King of the Ganges, showed us his guard of tall black men,
five cubits high, and in the gardens of his palace, under a pavilion of
green brocade, an enormous elephant, whom the queens used to amuse
themselves in perfuming. This was the elephant of Porus, who fled after
the death of Alexander."

_Damis_--"And which was found again in a forest."

_Antony_--"They talk a great deal, like drunken people."

_Apollonius_--"Phraortes made us sit down at his table."

_Damis_--"What an odd country! The noblemen, while drinking, amuse
thems