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other in the same manner, and sometimes catch 

 six or seven hares in a day ; they, however, 

 more frequently leave off after catching three or 

 four, which is sufficient to supply them with food 

 for that and the next day, and also with as much 

 spirit as will make them all drunk ; for they sell 

 the hares to the natives at about the value of 

 three-pence each, but not to Europeans under 

 seven-pence or eight-pence, their usual price being 

 four annas, which is a quarter of a rupee ; a rupee 

 is the value of half a crown. 



If they see a hare in its form in a place where 

 they can run round it, and approach near enough 

 to take it up, they commence running in a circle 

 of about eight yards diameter, keeping up an in- 

 cessant shrill noise, dwelling as it were on the same 

 note, and lessening their circle gradually, with 

 their eyes steadfastly fixed on the animal, whose 

 eyes are fixed on them, and in fact it becomes so 

 fascinated as to allow itself to be taken up delibe- 

 rately by the ears, when it commences a disagree- 

 able melancholy cry. 



I have often gone close to them when fright- 

 ened as described above, and turned them out 



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