"From Kunulua, the capital of Lubarna, the Sharutinian[150], I departed. The Arantu (Orontes) I crossed. On the banks of the Arantu I encamped. From the banks of the Arantu I departed. Between the countries of _Saraban_ and _Tapan_ (?) I occupied the country. By the seashore I encamped. To the city of _Ariboua_ (?), a principal city of Lubarna, the Sharutinian, I returned.... (undeciphered passage). _I caused some men of Assyria to dwell in his palace_ (?). Whilst I was in Ariboua the cities of Lukuta I took. I slew many of their men. I overthrew and burned their cities. Their _fighting men_ (or ? the deserters from my army) I laid hold of. On stakes over against their city I impaled them.[151] At that time the countries that are upon Lebanon I took possession of, to the great sea of the country of Akkari (the Mediterranean). On the great sea _I put_ my servants (?). Sacrifices to the gods I offered. The tribute of the kings of the people who dwelt near the sea, of the Tyrians, the Sidonians, the Kubalians, the _Mahalatai_ (?), the Ma...ai, the Kha..., and the Akkarians (all nations to the north of Tyre), and of the city of Arvad, which is in the middle of the sea--silver and gold pieces, rings (?) of copper, _ingots_ (?) of copper, two kinds of _clothing_ (?) (perhaps the dyed cloth of Tyre, or embroideries such as are frequently mentioned in the Bible), great '_yagouti_' and small '_pagouti_' (meaning not determined), some wooden objects, apparently of cedar, and _pearls_ (?), from the rivers at or between the sea.[152] I went to the mountain of Kamana (the Camanus, in the north of Syria). I sacrificed to the gods. I made _bridges_ (or beams), and _pillars_ (?). From Kamana I brought them to Bithkara, for my own house, for the temple of San, for the temple of the sun. I went to the forests and cut them down, and made _bridges_ (?) (or roofs or beams) of the wood, for Ishtar, mistress of the city of Nineveh, my protectress."[153] The chief events of the reign of this king are briefly alluded to in the standard and other inscriptions discovered in the north-west palace at Nimroud; but in the records just described we have a minuteness of geographical detail, which enables us to trace the course of his expeditions with great certainty. Standing one day on a distant part of the mound, I smelt the sweet smell of burning cedar. The Arab workmen, excavating in the small temple, had dug out a beam, and, the weather being cold, had at once made a fire to warm themselves. The wood was cedar; probably one of the very beams mentioned in the inscription as brought from the forests of Lebanon by the king who built the edifice. After a lapse of nearly three thousand years, it had retained its original fragrance. It is likely that the whole superstructure, as well as the roof and floor of the building, like those of the temple and palace of Solomon, were of this precious material.