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his daily pleasure, whicli he turns into toil, 

 and that toil attended with most injurious con- 

 sequences to his own reputation as a sovereign, 

 and to the happiness and prosperity of his people. 



Abulfuzul, writing on hunting, thus describes 

 '' Ghuntaheera." '' This," says he, " is the name 

 of another manner of hunting. A man takes 

 in his hand a shield or basket, so as to 

 cover a lamp ; then, with his other hand, he 

 rings a little bell : the animals running towards 

 the light and the noise, are shot with ar- 

 rows by those who lie in cover. There is 

 another way of assembling the game together, 

 by a person's singing an incantation ; but 

 His Majesty, considering both these methods 

 to be nefarious, has ordered them to be dis- 

 continued." 



These modes of hunting were, however, 

 surely less of the nature of poaching than the 

 one just mentioned as practised by His High- 

 ness Meer Ali Moorad. 



The Shikarees of Sindh have a peculiar 

 way of using the bow with a blunt arrow, 

 which strikes the bird aimed at sideways, 

 and brings it down with the blow. They 

 have, however, very fine bows in Sindh, 



