^rg., OF THE MURDEREES 



gangs, who are not accompanied in their excurfions by women, may> 

 perhaps be reforted to by faaaller and more needy parties, who rob, 

 Bear to their own abodes, or who, having no fixed habitation, coiitintv. 

 ^lly roam with their families from plxe to place. ^ 



; With refped to the pra^ice of throwing the noofe from a diftancej^ 

 as mentioned by Thevenot, and which is that o^ the Binjaris iu Indies, 

 to recover their flrayed bullocks, fp) I conclude it to. bc^ the fame as, 

 was reforted tain battle (according to FiRSAusi) by th^ mcient PerK 

 fians and other AjlfLtic nationss fo^ Ceiz.ing and binding their enemieSp 

 and dragging them off horfeback. Th^ cammfind^ (literaUy a, rope or 

 noofe,) faid to have been formed of filk, or of the dried (kin or finewa 

 of animals, is mentioned in various parts of the Shah Na^mah. Thus^ 

 in narrating the exploits of the renowned champion Rustum, it is faid:— ^ 



liusTUM advaqc^ed like a furious elephintj, 

 His cavimand in his arna full hxty coik. 



(/) 7'avernibe, fpeaking of the C/>r<7^afff, obfcr»re ;— •« lis nc fe f-rvent point de chiens ni d'oyfeaus 

 pour la ch"ffc, & quand '}\% y vont il« s'ail'enililent d'ordiinaire fepJ. ou huit del principaux du village. lis ont- 

 de si bon« chevaux qu'a U couvf; ils laiigucni la befte & la forceiit de fe tcndrc. Chacun tienJ soute prcsts 

 unc corde qui a un noeiid coqjaot & c'eft slachce a i'arc"n dc la felle, & ilt font si ad/oi's a h jctcr »u col d^ . 

 la bcRc qyi fp rcjjd dc laffitodc qr.'ii y en u pcu qai less,r cchapcnt."— 'Tom I. L}v, Tioisiefne> Ch. XI, 



The la^u! o( the South ,4m!rkaH hdiant, enabJej t!ietn to ftrike and entangle aiwmal* at tbe diftance ol:,- 

 3po pscei. It is a ftfip of leaihrr, five .<r fix feet long, to each end of which is fatlfrisd a ftone aboujt twa. 

 pounds weighf. The humfinan, whi is on horfeback, hoU« one of tliefc ftones in hij hand, and wh rls the. 

 other round like a fl^ng as f*iftly as pofliblf, in aider fohurl it with more force, wheo Ue throws it at the,, 

 animal he hae^fipgled oDt, which heis almoft ctitaiti of fiiikiog,, 

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The laqui of ihc 5/c^i^ peafantj of Soi/tk J7fsir/ca,.ia the ufc of which they are, amazingly expert, differ^i, 

 from that ufed by (he Indians in hiving a fingle noofe, in pbcc of a ball at each et»d. It is their principal; 

 wespn, for they employ it on all occafions, both IE hunting and in their prirate qmrreU. Ulloa fayij,, 

 Bliat the Spanijh peafantry can ftriks and kalter the objcA of thcit attack, with almoft unerring ceritainfy, at 

 the didance of 50 or 40 pic€i ; but that a fsnall diaancr, fach as 10 ot 15 pace«, KodcfS thcit dexicriiy, iai- 

 l)mc mcafure incffcftual.— .Vide Encyclo .BrcwA Art, Chili, 



