CHAPTER yill. 



Hare chased by a Hawk — A Vocal Revcill6 — Hunting Cavalcade — 

 Afghan Greyhounds — Description of the Moharee, or Hunting- 

 ground — A Battue — Tlie Meer's Family — Official Misstatements 

 — Meer Shah Nowaz Khan— Meer Jehan Mahomed— The Fat 

 Boy of the Family — Matrimonial Arrangements — Ladies of the 

 Meer's Family — Domestic Habits of the Zunana — The Toilette — 

 Conversation of the Ladies — The Meer's Neglect of his Wives — 

 Talpoor Dynasty — The Jungle — Hog-hunting — The Camp — Chief 

 Commissioner's State Visit — Napier's Interview with Meer All 

 Moorad — Noble Character of that General. 



In tlie afternoon we went out again with the 

 hawks, and had good sport, I for the first time 

 seeing a hare chased by them. Poor pussy 

 though had no chance. The kind of hawk 

 flown was the Laghar, a fine long- winged hawk, 

 which when sHpped at the hare struck one 

 claw into the fur of its back, and with the other 

 grappling a tuft of grass soon brought the timid 

 fugitive to a stand. In "this chase there is some 

 danger of the hawk being split up by the vio- 

 lence of the jerk when it clutches the grass to 



