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AFGHAN GREYHOUNDS. 



sons, fine, handsome youths, in attendance on 

 their father, followed by a hundred or so of 

 horsemen, or camel-riders. As the cavalcade 

 proceeds, I say, up flies a partridge, away goes 

 a hawk and clutches it in a moment ; or, per- 

 haps, the dogs are slipped at some of the innu- 

 merable hares that start up under our feet. 

 The dogs employed are generally large Af- 

 ghan greyhounds, tolerably swift and abundant- 

 ly savage. At length we reach the Moharee, or 

 hunting-ground, and of this I must give a brief 

 description. These Moharees are triangular 

 portions of a jungle, enclosed and divided 

 thus : — 



The beaters, with fire-arms, tomtoms, or 

 drums, horns, &c., are put into the Moharee at 

 the wide end, beating the jungle towards the 



