Obfewations &c. 2^9 



neighbouring Shade. He hath no Reliili at all for Domeftick 

 Pleafures, and is rarely known to converfe with his Wife, or 

 play with his Children. What he values above all, is his Horfe *• 

 for in this he placeth his higheft Satisfaction ; being feldoni well 

 pleafed or in good humour, but when he is far from Home, 

 riding at full Speed and hunting. 



The Arabs J and indeed the eaftern Nations in eeneral are ^τ^''• ^exte 

 certamly very dextrous at this Exercife. I have feen feveral 

 Perfons at Grand Cairo, who could take up a Jerrid, at full 

 Speed, from the Ground: and there are none of them huty^'/^'""''•"^ 

 who can quickly hunt down a wild Boar. We have, upon^^'^'-. "^" 

 one of the Medallions of Conflantine^ Arch ', a very beautiful 

 Reprefentation of this Sport, as it is performed, to this Day, 

 by the Arabs ; who, after they have rouzed the Beaft from 

 his Retirement and purfued it into fome adjacent Plain, en- 

 deavour there, by frequently overtaking and turning it, to tire 

 and perplex it; and then, watching an Opportunity, either 

 launce it, at fome Diftance, or elfe, coming clofe by it's Side, 

 fix their Spears in it's Body. At the hunting of the Lyon, ^i^^^dLyov. 

 whole Diftrid is fummoned to appear ; who, forming them- 

 felves firit into a Circle, enclofe a Space of three, four or 

 five Miles in Compafs, according to the Number of the People, 

 and the Quality of the Ground, that is pitched upon for the 

 Scene of this Aolion. The Footmen advance firit, ruiliing into 

 the Thickets, with their Dogs and Spears, to put up the Game ; 

 whilft the Horfemen, keeping a little behind, are always ready 

 to charge, upon the firit Sally of the wild Beaft. In this Man- 

 ner they proceed, ftill contrading their Circle, 'till they all 

 at laft either clofe in together, or meet with fomething to di- 

 vert them. The accidental Paftime upon thefe Occafions is ^ ^'f^'^'T "/" 

 fometimes very diverting; for, the feveral different Sorts φ"^'"""^'" 

 Animals that lye within this Compafs, being, by this Means, 

 drove together, they rarely fail of having a Variety of agree- 

 able Chaces ?LitQtHares,Jachalls,Hj>anas, and other wild Beafts \ 



I Vid. Vet. Arcus Auguftorum &c. Tab. ^6. 2 Wc have In the following Lines of 

 Stattus (Achtll. 1.45:9.) a beautiful Defcriptionof the like Divcrfion. 



Si (urva [eras indago lutentes 



Claud'it, & admot'is paulatim cajjlbm ατίΐαί. 

 Ιίΐ£ ignem fonitumque pavetit, defufaque linquunt 

 A/ia, miTanturque fuum decrefcere montem. 

 Inque vicem JJuptiere greges, foc'toque t'lmore 

 ManfuefiuHt, fimul hirtus Aper, fimul Vrfa, Liipitfque 

 Oghiir, ύ" captos (ontenmit Cerva Leones. 



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[ the Occiljov. 



