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Travels into I N D I E S. Part III. 
Rings alfo are the Ornaments of their Fingers, as they are in other places : 
They wear a great many, and as they love^ to fee themfelves, they have 
A Finger always one with a Looking-Glafs fet in it, inftead of a Stone, which is an 
Looking-glafs. Inch in diamètre. If thefe Indian Women be Idolators, they go bare-faced ; 
Indian Women and if Mahometans, they are Vailed. There are fome Countries in the In- 
nakedtothe dies, whcrc the Women as well as Men go naked to the middle,, and the 
reft of their Body is only covered to the Knee. 
middle. 
CHAP. XXI. 
Of other Curiofities at Agra. 
Fighting of 
Beaftî. 
Indian Anti- 
lopes. 
Leopard. 
Pidgeons. 
A Screen for 
Fowling. 
The catching 
of Water-fowl 
THere are a great many at Agra, wIto are, curious in breeding up of 
Beaftsj to have the pleafure to make them Fight together : But feeing 
they cannot reach to Elephants and Lions, becaufeit cofts "clear to feed them, 
moft part content themfelves with He-goats, Weathers, Rams, Cocks, 
Quailes, Stags, and Antilopes, to entertain their Friends with the Fightings 
of thefe Beafts. 
The Indian Antilopes, are not altogether like thofe of other Countries ^ 
they have even a great deal more courage, and are to be diftinguiûied by 
the Horns. The Horns of the ordinary Antilopes are greyifh, and but half 
as long as the Horns of thofe in the Indies, which are biackifl), and a large 
Foot and a half long. Thefe Horns grow winding to the point like a fcrew ; 
and the Fa<juirs and Santons carry commonly two of them pieced together ; 
they are armed with Iron at both ends, and they make ufe of them, as of 
a little Staff.* 
When they ufe not a tame Leopard for catching of Antilopes, they take 
with them a Male of the kind, that is tame, and faften a Rope about his 
Horns with feveral noofes and doubles, the two ends whereof arc tied un- 
der his Belly -, fo foon as they difcovcr a Heard of Antilopes, they ilip this 
Male, and he runs to joyn them : The Male of the Heard advances to 
hinder him, and making no other oppoiition, but by playing with his 
Horns, he fails not to be peftered and entangled with his Rival, fo that it 
being uneafie for him to retreat, the Huntfman cunningly catches hold on 
him, and carries him off -, but it is cafier fo to catch the Male than the 
Females. 
There are Pidgeons in that Country all over green, which differ from 
ours only in colour : The Fov/lers take them with Bird-lime, in this man- 
ner ; they carry before them a kind of light Shed or Screen, that covers the 
whole Body, and has holes in it to fee through -, the Pidgeons feeing no Man, 
are not at all feared when the Fowler draws near, fo that he cunningly 
catches them, one after another, with a Wand and Bird lime on it, none 
offering to flie away. In fome places Parrocquets are taken after the fame 
manner. 
The Indians are very dexterous at Game ; they take Water-fowl with 
great facility, as thus : The Fowlers fwimalmoft upright, yetfo, that they 
have their Head above Water, which they hide with a Pot full of holes, 
to let in the Air, and give them fight. Éefides, this Pot is covered with 
Feathers, to cheat the Ducks, and other Fowl -, fo that when the Fowler 
draws near them, they are not in the leaft feared, taking that floating head 
for a Fowl -, and then the Fowler makes fure of them by the Feet, which 
he catches hold of under Water, and draws them down : The other Ducks 
feeing no body, think that their comrades have only dived, and are not 
at all feared fothat grov/ing acquainted with the Feathered head, that ftill 
follows them, they are at length all taken, whil'ftin vain they ftay for the 
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