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it is a common Obfervation in this Country, that, when the 

 Lyon perceives himfelf in danger , nay fometimes the very 

 Moment he is rouzed, he will feize directly upon the Perfon 

 who is the neareft to him, and, rather than quit his Hold, 

 fuffer himfelf to be cut to Pieces. 

 Tke Arabs Hawklng is one of the chiefeft Diverlions among the y^rahs 

 Sh/JSJ' and Gentry of the Kingdom of Tunis. Their Woods afford 

 them a beautiful Variety of Hawks and Falcons ; for which 

 this Kingdom feems to have been remarkable Two Centuries 

 Their Mcthod?i^o \ Thofc who delight in Fowling, do not fpring the Game 

 onhooung ^.^j^ p^gg ^ ^^^ fliading themfelves with a Piece of Canvafs 

 ftretched, upon two Reeds, into the Ihape of a Door, walk 

 through the feveral Brakes and Avenues, where they exped: to 

 find it. The Canvafs is ufually fpotted, or painted with the 

 Figure of a Leopard ; and, a little below the Top, there is 

 one or more Holes for the Fowler to look through and obferve 

 what palTes before him. It is remarkable, that the Rhaady 

 Kitaivmh, Tartridge, and other gregarious Birds, will, upon 

 the Approach of the Canvafs, covey together, though they 

 were before at fome Diftance from each other : the IVoodcoch^ 

 ^ail imd fuch Birds likewife, as do not commonly feed in Flocks, 

 will, upon Sight of the fame, ftand ftill and look aflonifhed. 

 This gives the Sportfman an Opportunity of coming very near 

 them, and then refting the Canvafs upon the Ground, and di- 

 refting the Muzzle of his Peice through one of the Holes, 

 knocks down fometimes a whole Covey at a Time. The y4rahs 

 have another , though a more laborious Method of catching 

 great Numbers of Tartridges : for obferving, that after thefe 

 Birds have been haflily fprung twice or thrice, they become 

 languid and fatigued, they immediately run in upon them, and 

 knock them down with their Zerwnttys '. 

 The Mannen With RcEard to the Manners and Cuftoms of the Bedoweens 

 efthe Bedo-it IS to bc oblcrved that they retam a great many of thofe we 

 read of in facred as well as profane Hiftory ; being, if we except 

 their Religion, the fame People they were two or three thou- 



I Rcges Tunetenfes Ctcfarea Majeftati ejufque fucceflbribus HifpanU regibus, fingulis annis 

 in ^quum, Tex cquos Mauros eo{que exquifitiffimos ac duodecim eximios falcones in xviter- 

 nam beneficiorum abejus Majcftate acceptorum memoriatn danto& ofFerunto. Etroh. Diar. 

 Expcd. Tunet. a Carolo V. Imp. mdxxxv. 2 Thefe are ftiort Sticks, fuch probably as the 

 antient -y^-prifit were, which being bound round the End with Iron or inlaid with Pewter or 

 Brafs, ferve thofe ^ral/s who are not Maftcrs of a Gun, for an oftenfive and defenfive 

 Weapon. 



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