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throughout seemed to look to each other for aid. 

 This, I was told, was the result of long and 

 skilful training. 



The antelope is supposed to be the fleetest 

 quadruped on earth, and the rapidity of the first 

 burst of the chase I have described is astonishing. 

 The run seldom exceeds three or four miles, and 

 often is not half so much. A fawn is an easy 

 victory ; the doe often runs a good chase, and the 

 buck is seldom taken. The Arabs are, indeed, 

 afraid to fly their hawks at the latter, as these fine 

 birds, in pouncing, frequently impale themselves 

 on its sharp horns. . . . 



Another mode of running down the antelope is 

 practised here, and still more in the interior of 

 Persia. Persons of the highest rank lead their own 

 greyhounds in a long silken leash, which passes 

 through the collar, and is ready to slip the moment 

 the huntsman chooses. The well-trained dog goes 

 alongside the horse, and keeps clear of him when 

 at full speed, and in all kinds of country. When 

 a herd of antelopes is seen, a consultation is held, 

 and the most experienced determine the point 

 towards which they are to be driven. The field 

 [as an English sportsman would term it] then dis- 

 perse, and while some drive the herd in the desired 

 direction, those with the dogs take their post on 

 the same line, at the distance of about a mile from 

 each other ; one of the worst dogs is then slipped 

 at the herd, and from the moment he singles out 

 an antelope the whole body are in motion. The 

 object of the horsemen who have greyhounds is 

 to intercept its course, and to slip fresh dogs, in 

 succession, at the fatigued animal. In rare instances 

 the second dog kills. It is generally the third or 



