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kunde, 1864, p. 22) gives us the hieroglyphic symbols of the Gazelle, and 
its corresponding name as “ Gahés.” It was evidently a common object of 
chase even in those days. 
Crossing over into the Holy Land, we find the Dorcas Gazelle registered in 
Canon Tristram’s ‘Fauna and Flora of Palestine’ as met with in all suitable 
localities. From the same author’s ‘ Natural History of the Bible’ we extract 
the following passages relating to this favourite animal :— 
“The Gazelle (Gazella dorcas) is by far the most abundant of all the large game in 
Palestine; indeed it is the only wild animal of the chase which an ordinary traveller has 
any chance of seeing. Small herds of gazelles are to be found in every part of the 
country, and in the south they congregate in herds of nearly 100 together. One such 
herd I met with at the southern end of the Jebel Usdum, or salt mountain, south of 
the Dead Sea, where they had congregated to drink of the only sweet spring within 
several miles, Ain Beida. Though generally considered an animal of the desert and 
the plains, the gazelle appears at home everywhere. It shares the rocks of Engedi with 
the wild goats; it dashes over the wide expanse of the desert beyond Beersheba ; it 
canters in single file under the monastery of Marsaba. We found it in the glades of 
Carmel, and it often springs from its leafy covert on the back of Tabor, and screens 
itself under the thorn bushes of Gennesaret. Among the grey hills of Galilee it is still 
‘the roe upon the mountains of Bether, and I have seen a little troop of gazelles 
feeding on the Mount of Olives, close to Jerusalem itself. While in the open grounds 
of the south it is the wildest of game, and can only be approached, unless by chance, at 
its accustomed drinking-places, and that before the dawn of morning; in the glades of 
Galilee it is very easily surprised, and trusts to the concealment of its covert for safety. 
I have repeatedly startled the gazelle from a brake only a few yards in front of me, and 
once, when ensconced out of sight in a storax bush, I watched a pair of gazelles with 
their kid, which the dam was suckling. Ever and anon both the soft-eyed parents would 
gambol with it as though fawns themselves.” 
Canon Tristram describes the mode of hunting Gazelles practised by the 
Arabs as follows :-— 
«The usual way of hunting the Gazelle is by lying in wait, either at its watering- 
places, which are always known to the Arabs, or in the defiles in the rocky districts. A 
more wholesale mode is practised in the Houran, by driving a herd into a decoy- 
enclosure, with a pitfall on the other side, where they are easily taken. When in 
company with great sheikhs, I have more than once had an opportunity of witnessing 
the chase of the Gazelle, after the only fashion which the high-bred Bedouin thinks 
sportsmanlike, viz. with the greyhound or the falcon, or more often with both combined. 
When the greyhound, which is the large Persian dog, with long silky ears and silky 
tail, is employed alone, success is very uncertain, and the ‘roe’ often ‘delivers itself from 
the hand of the hunter.’ When the chase is conducted with the falcon alone, the bird 
is traincd to dash repeatediy at the head of the victim, taking an instinctive care not to 
