HUNTING WITH DEER. 
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their eyes until it was time to set them at the game,, 
from the apprehension that they would struggle to get 
loose immediately upon seeing it ; but they are now 
taught to remain perfectly quiet with their eyes open. 
The Omrahs lay bets upon every forty leopards, and 
he, whose animal seizes first, wins the wager. Also, the 
Dooreah, or leader, whose leopard first kills twenty 
head of game, takes five rupees from his brethren. 
Syed Ahmed Barah, who is at the head of this de- 
partment, takes a mohur (about thirty-five shillings) 
from each person who wins a bet, from which he 
acquires a considerable income. When an Emir 
presents his Majesty with twenty pair of antelope’s 
horns, he receives a mohur from each of the other 
thirty-nine Omrahs. The Bundookcheean and keepers 
of the missels have also their respective bets. His 
Majesty never hunts on a Friday, in consequence of 
a vow which he made upon the birth of his eldest 
son.” 
The manner of hunting deer with deer, extracted 
from the same work, will not be found unworthy of 
the reader’s attention. 
“ They fasten a snare about a tame deer, so that 
when a wild one engages him he is entangled by the 
horns and ears ; upon which the hunters issue from 
their covert and seize him. If the tame deer is over- 
powered, or the snare breaks, he returns to his 
keeper. Sultan Firoze Kuljee had some idea of this 
manner of hunting, but it is only now brought to per- 
fection. They will now hunt in the night ; and if the 
wild deer runs away, or the snare breaks, the tame 
one obeys the orders of his keeper, and comes or goes 
