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*44 GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN.
" kinds, fome for quail, and others very large for fifhing,
" which are carried along with him upon elephants, attended
" by fiihermen, fo as to be always ready for throwing into
" any river or lake that may be met with. Every article that
" can contribute to luxury or pleafure, is likewife carried along
" with the army. A great many carts are loaded with the
M Ganges water, and even ice is tranfported for cooling the
" drink. The fruits of the feafon and frefh vegetables are
" daily fent to him from his gardens, by bearers ftationed at
u the diftance of every ten miles, by which means each article
f* is conveyed, day or night, at the rate of four miles an hour.
** Befides the animals already mentioned, there are alfo fighting
" antelopes, buffaloes, and rams, in great numbers; alfo feveral
" hundred pigeons, fome fighting cocks, and a vaft variety of
** parrots, nightingales, &x. &c.
** The Nabob, with the attending gentlemen, proceed in a
" regulär moving court or durbar, and thus they keep con-
" verfing together, and looking out for game. A great many
" foxes, hares, jackals, and fometimes deer, are picked up by
" the dogs as they pafs along. The hawks are carried imme-
" diately before the elephants, and let fly at whatever game is
" fprung for them, which is generally partridges, buftards,
il quails, and difFerent kinds of herons; thefe laft affording
<* excellent fport with the falcons, or fharp-winged hawks.
" Wild boars are ftarted fometimes, and either Ihot or run
«« down by the dogs and horfemen. Hunting the tiger is,
" however, looked upon as the principal diverfion, and the dif-
il covery of one of thefe animals is accounted a matter of great
« joy.
" kinds, fome for quail, and others very large for fifhing,
" which are carried along with him upon elephants, attended
" by fiihermen, fo as to be always ready for throwing into
" any river or lake that may be met with. Every article that
" can contribute to luxury or pleafure, is likewife carried along
" with the army. A great many carts are loaded with the
M Ganges water, and even ice is tranfported for cooling the
" drink. The fruits of the feafon and frefh vegetables are
" daily fent to him from his gardens, by bearers ftationed at
u the diftance of every ten miles, by which means each article
f* is conveyed, day or night, at the rate of four miles an hour.
** Befides the animals already mentioned, there are alfo fighting
" antelopes, buffaloes, and rams, in great numbers; alfo feveral
" hundred pigeons, fome fighting cocks, and a vaft variety of
** parrots, nightingales, &x. &c.
** The Nabob, with the attending gentlemen, proceed in a
" regulär moving court or durbar, and thus they keep con-
" verfing together, and looking out for game. A great many
" foxes, hares, jackals, and fometimes deer, are picked up by
" the dogs as they pafs along. The hawks are carried imme-
" diately before the elephants, and let fly at whatever game is
" fprung for them, which is generally partridges, buftards,
il quails, and difFerent kinds of herons; thefe laft affording
<* excellent fport with the falcons, or fharp-winged hawks.
" Wild boars are ftarted fometimes, and either Ihot or run
«« down by the dogs and horfemen. Hunting the tiger is,
" however, looked upon as the principal diverfion, and the dif-
il covery of one of thefe animals is accounted a matter of great
« joy.