l upon Khubushkia, and reduced a hundred
towns to ashes, pursuing the king Kakia into the depths of the forest,
and forcing him to an unconditional surrender. Ascending thence to
Shugunia, a dependency of Arame's, he laid the principality waste, in
spite of the desperate resistance made on their mountain slopes by the
inhabitants; then proceeding to Lake Van, he performed the ceremonial
rites incumbent on an Assyrian king whenever he stood for the first time
on the shores of a new sea. He washed his weapons in the waters, offered
a sacrifice to the gods, casting some portions of the victim into
the lake, and before leaving carved his own image on the surface of a
commanding rock. On his homeward march he received tribute from Gilzan.
This expedition was but the prelude of further successes. After a few
weeks' repose at Nineveh, he again set out to make his authority felt in
the western portions of his dominions.

[Illustration: 093.jpg THE PEOPLE OF SHUGUNIA FIGHTING AGAINST THE
ASSYRIANS]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the bas-reliefs on the
bronze gates of Balawat.

Akhuni, chief of Bit-Adini, whose position was the first to be menaced,
had formed a league with the chiefs of all the cities which had formerly
bowed before Assur-nazir-pal's victorious arms, Gurgum, Samalla, Kui,
the Patina, Car-chemish, and the Khati. Shalmaneser seized Lalati* and
Burmarana, two of Akhuni's towns, drove him across the Euphrates, and
following close on his heels, collected as he passed the tribute of
Gurgum, and fell upon Samalla.

* Lalati is probably the Lulati of the Egyptians. The modern
site is not known, nor is that of Burmarana.

Under the walls of Lutibu he overthrew the combined forces of Adini,
Samalla, and the Patina, and raised a trophy to commemorate his victory
at the sources of the Saluara; then turning sharply to the south, he
crossed the Orontes in pursuit of Shapalulme, King of the Patina.

[Illustration: 094.jpg PRISONERS FROM SHUGUNIA, WITH THEIR ARMS TIED AND
YOKES ON THEIR NECKS]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the bas-reliefs on the
bronze gates of Balawat.

Not far from Alizir he encountered a fresh army raised by Akhuni and
the King of Samalla, with contingents from Carchemish, Kui, Cilicia, and
Iasbuki:* having routed it, he burnt the fortresses of Shapalulme, and
after occupying himself by cutting down cedars and cypress trees on the
Amanos in the province of