CHAPTER IX.

SINGULAR SCULPTURES IN THE DESERT—THE MOUNTAIN PASS 88

Hatíta—Sculptures in Telísaghé—Subject of Sculptures, Two Deities Fighting about a Bull—Herd of Bulls—Cattle formerly Beasts of Burden in the Desert—Fine Valleys—Breaking up of the Plateau—The Narrow Gutter-like Pass of Ralle—Téliya—Sérdales—Valley Tánesof—Mount Ídinen—The Traveller’s Mishap—Astray in the Desert—The Wanderer found—Arrival at Ghát.