HAWKS, AND GREY-HOUNDS. 47 



small birds. Others are trained to hover over 

 ponds of water in which there are wild fowl, 

 which on being fired at, rise immediately, 

 when the hawk darts on them and obliges them 

 again to drop into the water, by which means 

 the sportsmen get many shots and kill a great 

 number. 



They also have grey-hounds, which al- 

 though not fleet, are naturally extremely sa- , 

 vage, and are rendered more so by being kept 

 without food the day before they are used. 



A Rajah in Bahar received as a present a 

 brace of large Persian grey-hounds which he 

 took out on a sporting excursion with a party 

 of gentlemen, with a view of exhibiting their 

 perfections. He slipped them after a jackal, 

 and rode off himself in the direction of the ani- 

 mal, hallooing the dogs, who mistaking the 

 object intended for them, attacked the Rajah's 

 horse, and obliged him to ride into a neigh- 

 bouring river, up to the horses back, in order 

 to escape from their attack, to the great amuse- 

 ment of the gentlemen present, and the Ra- 

 jah's mortification. 



