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ing pace on horfe-back with his Foor-man that went before : He told 
inc that he was an hour and a hah" on the way, and that having o> 
bliged his Foot men to reckon all their fteps, and to mark them by 
hundreds, he found that they had made four thouland Geometrical pa- 
ces, which make a German mile, and is a French League and a half: 
So that the tryal of i\\q Schaters is in travelling thirty fix French Leagues '^^^Schaters 
ùom Morn.ng to Night. 
The Cbd-ns in their Governments make their Schaters alfo run, and Leagues, 
all make them prefects, there being no difference but in more and The Chans 
lels. When a Schater would be received into the Service of any Lord, make their 
he performs his tryal, which is to goe an Agatfch from the Town, Schaters 
where he finds a man that gives him an Know marked with a cer- 
tain mark, that he may not play the cheat ; he puts it through a 
hole in his coat on the (houlder, and fo brings it to the Town, where 
he leaves it and returns back for another ; and in one day betwixt Sun 
and Sun, he muft go and bring twelve, and fb run four and twenty 
Agatfch : At Night they count the Arrows which he hath brought, and 
if there be twelve of them he is received. He refts not all day long, 
neither eats ; for that would hinder his going, but is continually in moti- 
on, fave Ibmetimes when he drinks Sorbet. I have been aflured that there 
are fome of thefè Lords Schaters, who in a frolick fometimes will cany 
on their fhoulders four and twenty Mans of Tauris , which make 
a hundred and forty pound Weight, or thereabouts, and with that 
load travel thirty Agatfch a day , ( that's to fay ) thirty French 
Leagues. 
The King has a great many hunting Dogs of all kinds, befides which, Hunting dog.s. 
he makes u(e alfo of the Ounce or Panther , in hunting of Antelopes. Panthers, 
That is a very tame Beaft, and does no hurt to men ; in Perjian it is oi- 
called DgwHs, and is brought from Arabia. They carry it commonly on ^^Jlglg^^ 
Horfe back behind a Man, who holds it by a Chain about the Neck : 
When they are to hunt him, they keep a Cloath before his Eyes, 
untill they have difcovered an Antelope ; and when they come within 
. five or fix hundred paces of it, they take off" the Cloath and Chain, 
and fhewing him the Antelope, let him go. He creeps foftly on his Belly 
towards the Antelope, hiding himfelf behind the Hedges when he can ; 
and when he is got within about fixty paces of it, he runs at it with 
skips and great leaps, and fails not with three or four bounds to catch 
it ; and if he catch it not then he purfues no farther, and is fo afhamed^ 
that they have much adoe to make him hunt any more that day : But 
to comfort him, the Huntfinen tell one another aloud, that he hath not 
feen it, and that if he had feen it, he would not have miffed, believ- 
ing that he underftands their Compliment very well. 
They keep all the Dogs and wild Beafls too, in a Houfe by the 
River-fide, near the Bridge, on the right hand as you go to Giolfa : 
And on the left hand before a Garden on the River-fide , there is a 
Volary full of rare Fowl, as Efîradges, Peacocks and others. The y^. 
King has alfo n:iany Hawks, and I was allured that he had above nine Hawk»*. 
hundred, which they feed generally with Fowl, giving them Mutton but 
once a Week. 
The Perfians are very expert in making of Hawks, and commonly 
they ufe Falcons to fiie at all forts of Fowl whofe Eyes they file that How they 
they may not fee, and then let flie the Falcon which eafily takes make Falcons, 
them when they cannot fee. Amongft thefè Hawks there are Falcons 
for hunting the Antdope , which they teach in this manner. They Hunting of 
have counterfeit Antelopes, on the Nofes whereof they daily feed the Antelopes by 
Falcons, and no where elfe ; having bred them fo, they go into the 
Fields with them, and fo foon as they have difcovered an Antelope, let 
flie two of thefe Hawks, of which one of them faitens jufl upon the 
Antelope's Nofe, and rtrikes him backwards with his Talons : The Ame- 
lope 
