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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



TRIBIiSMKN OF RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA SET OFF FOR A DAY S SPORT WITH 

 THEIR HUNTING EAGLES 



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Photograph by Capt. CoUingwood Ingram 



A REMINDER OF THE DAYS WHEN 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. 



