«8 EASTERN HINDOOSTAN, 



Or may not they be tempted to follow armies by the daily fall 

 of obje<5ts of their rapine, by the ftroke of natural death ? But 

 whether they are expedlant of the ilaughter of battle, or whe- 

 ther they are brought from afar by the effluvia from the nu- 

 merous flain, nothing injures the juftly and animated defcrip- 

 tion of our poet, when he compares the great foe of mankind 

 to a vulture, expecting the mighty prey, the firil of men, and 

 all his race, whom he ignorantly fuppofed a deftined banquet 

 for his malignant jaws ; no one will regret my quoting the 

 fine palTage, of which the preceding hemiftics are the begin- 

 ning : 



As when a flock 



Of ravenous fowl, though many a league remote 



Againfl the day of battle to a field 



Where armies lie encamp'd, come flying, lur'd 



With fcent of living carcafles defign'd 



For death, the following day in bloody fight ; 



So fcented the grim feature, and upturn'd 



His noflril wide into the murky air 



Sagacious of his quarry from fo far. 



Book x. 1. 273. 



Falcons. The falcons of this country are the Chine fe. Lathoni., i. 35. 



tab. II.; the Cbeala^ vii. p. 33, both large fpecies, and the 

 Crejled Indian^ JVil. Qrn. p. 82. The fineif hawks were pro- 

 cured from CaJJjmere, and other northern parts of the empire, 

 who are attended by natives of the country from w'hence the 

 birds are brought. Akbar had a vaft eftablifliment for the 

 7 amuferaent 



