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Chapter XV.
ILLNESS AND WANDERINGS OF IZDUBAR.
Heabani and the trees.—Illness of Izdabar.—Death of Heabani.—Journey of Izdubar.—His dream.—Scorpion men.—The Desert of Mas.—The paradise.—Siduri and Sabitu.—Urhamsi.—Water of death.—Ragmu.—The conversation.—Hasisadra.
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F the three tablets in this section, the first one is very uncertain, and is put together from two separate sources; the other two are more complete and satis factory.
Tablet VIII.
I am uncertain again if I have discovered any of this tablet; I provisionally place here some fragments of the first, second, third, and sixth columns of a tablet which may belong to it, but the only fragment worth translating at present is one I have given in "Assyrian Discoveries," p. 176. In some portions of these fragments there are references, as I have there stated, to the story of Humbaba, but as
