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MODE OF CATCHING WATER-FOWL.
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when the archers from their covert smite them with
arrows.
" Another way is called Bowkareh. Some archers
hide themselves in the grass in the wind's eye, whilst
others hold up a large sheet like a wall, and the deer,
being driven towards the sheet, are there shot with
arrows.
" Ajarek, is when the archers cover themselves
with green foliage, so that nothing of the human form
appears, and that their bows and arrows are concealed.
Another way: — The hunter hides himself in a tree;
and from thence makes a noise like a deer, which
brings the herd to that quarter, when he discharges
his arrows upon them."
The following mode of catching water-fowl is ex-
tremely curious. " The manner of catching water-
fowl is done after several ways ; bat the most curious
is the following. They make an artificial bird with the
skin and feathers of a water-fowl, the body of which
is hollow, so that a man may put his head into it,
and two apertures are made for him to see through.
The man having put his head therein, stands in the
water up to his neck ; and getting amongst the birds,
pulls them very dexterously under water by the legs;
but sometimes they are cunning enough to escape.
In Cashmere they teach a hawk to seize the birds
whilst swimming, and to bring them to a man who
attends in a little boat. Those which are too large
for the hawk to carry, it sits upon until the boat
comes to it." *
1 have drawn thus copiously from the Ayeen
• Ayeen Allxrry.
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when the archers from their covert smite them with
arrows.
" Another way is called Bowkareh. Some archers
hide themselves in the grass in the wind's eye, whilst
others hold up a large sheet like a wall, and the deer,
being driven towards the sheet, are there shot with
arrows.
" Ajarek, is when the archers cover themselves
with green foliage, so that nothing of the human form
appears, and that their bows and arrows are concealed.
Another way: — The hunter hides himself in a tree;
and from thence makes a noise like a deer, which
brings the herd to that quarter, when he discharges
his arrows upon them."
The following mode of catching water-fowl is ex-
tremely curious. " The manner of catching water-
fowl is done after several ways ; bat the most curious
is the following. They make an artificial bird with the
skin and feathers of a water-fowl, the body of which
is hollow, so that a man may put his head into it,
and two apertures are made for him to see through.
The man having put his head therein, stands in the
water up to his neck ; and getting amongst the birds,
pulls them very dexterously under water by the legs;
but sometimes they are cunning enough to escape.
In Cashmere they teach a hawk to seize the birds
whilst swimming, and to bring them to a man who
attends in a little boat. Those which are too large
for the hawk to carry, it sits upon until the boat
comes to it." *
1 have drawn thus copiously from the Ayeen
• Ayeen Allxrry.