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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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TRIBESMIJN 01? RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA SET OEF FOR A DAY'S SPORT WITH 

 THEIR HUNTING EAGLES 



A REMINDER OF THE DAYS WHEN 



Photograph by Capt. CoUingwood Ingram 

 HAWKING WAS THE SPORT OF KINGS 



Very few practice the sport now, but in medieval days it was an aristocratic pastime, 

 with more than one royal devotee. The falcon has just dispatched its quarry on Salisbury 

 Plain, England. 



