. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;. and secretly release it at a distance. After it set a dog,or a young greyhound too slow to overtake it. When the gazellefawn gets to some distance, gallop after it and slip the greyhounds ^ Agar dast-t ustCid-i kh_ilh hasliad diir mst dast-raw biyanddzi dar Si dast.•^ A:: khnstagJ rn-yi nl. nuhaata ast : exact meaning doubtful. EYESS SAKEK AND GAZELLE 121 as you do wlim liawking- wild gazelle,^ and cast off the the gazelle is taken, feed up the hawk as before, that shemay learn the advantage to be derived fr
. The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;. and secretly release it at a distance. After it set a dog,or a young greyhound too slow to overtake it. When the gazellefawn gets to some distance, gallop after it and slip the greyhounds ^ Agar dast-t ustCid-i kh_ilh hasliad diir mst dast-raw biyanddzi dar Si dast.•^ A:: khnstagJ rn-yi nl. nuhaata ast : exact meaning doubtful. EYESS SAKEK AND GAZELLE 121 as you do wlim liawking- wild gazelle,^ and cast off the the gazelle is taken, feed up the hawk as before, that shemay learn the advantage to be derived from taking this quarryand return to a liking for it. The object of entering a charl<h tohubara is as has been stated. You may think to yourself, I will fly my eyess at hare as hasbeen described for the passage li;iwk ! ~ Now, my pupil, on noacc<iuut must you do this; fly her not at hare, Inr this is , the nature of the passage hawk is noble, while the nature ofthe eyess is ignoble. If, after the disappointment that your eyess r A* aS*^. ?<r XX SINMXfi ITSKLl has experienced at gazelle, you tly her at hare with success, youmust of necessity feed her u]i; and as the gazelle and the hare areboth ground-game*^ and akin, your hawk will say to herself, Whyshould I not henceforth ily only the easier quarry ? No stam])odbond have T given to the Court to wrestle*? with that other kind of Ahii-yi safiriij. - The author has not mentioned this flight. • Charanda, lit. grazers. ^ Da chiir u du-lashma bi-shavam : lasJun .smooth-bodied :dti-lashma shudan is properly to wrestle together without eitheropponent getting a good grip. 122 RAZ-NAMA-YI NASIRI jackass ! ^ The hnbara, on tlie contrary, is not gronnd-game,nor has the eyess in a wild state preyed on it as has the passagehawk. By taking one or two liubara^ the eyess recovers herkeenness and plnck, but, on tlie third or fourth day, when she isoverflown at hubara and unrewarded, she gets disgusted with tha
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