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where wild beafts found fafe harbour until it 

 pleafed their matters to hold a grand hunting- 

 party and flay them. They are defcribed as 

 having confifted of fpacious tracts of grazing- 

 land, with plantations, and woods, and cool 

 ftreams within them, fomething like the Terai 

 of Nepaul at the prefent day. Cyrus's whole 

 army, in which Xenophon was ferving, was re- 

 viewed in one of thefe. 1 The latter wrote a 

 treatife on hunting. Varro, Arrian and Julius 

 Pollux give much information on the fame fub- 

 jed. Three treatifes on hunting, fifhing, and fowl- 

 ing are alfo afcribed to Oppian. The epitaph on 

 the tomb of Darius mews the keennefs of the 

 Perfians for the chafe : "I was a friend to friends ; 

 I became the moft ikilful of horfemen and archers ; 

 I was a mafter in the art of hunting ; I could do 

 all things." 2 When Paulus ^Emilius fubdued 

 Macedonia, he is faid to have brought away the 

 hounds and hunting-eftablimment of Perfeus, the 

 conquered king, to Rome, and given them to his 

 fon Scipio ^Emilianus. With the Germans, again, 

 " their whole life was fpent in hunting and the 

 ftudies of warfare," fays Casfar. 3 In our own 

 time thefe have been the only refources of the 

 North American Indians. Fighting and hunting 

 all over the world form the amufements of every 

 vigorous race in the infancy of civilization. 



1 See Lord Cockburn's article on "Ancient Hunting," 

 in the Nineteenth Century, Oftober, 1880; and for ancient 

 authorities, Kreyfig G. C., "Bibliotheca Scriptorum Venati- 

 corum." 1750, 8vo, Altenburgi. 



2 Strabo, xv. 3, 8. 3 "De Bell. Gall.," vi. 21. 



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