MODE OF CATCHING WATER-FOWL. 
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when the archers from their covert smite them with 
aiTOWs. 
Another way is called Bowkareh. Some archers 
hide themselves in the grass in the wind’s eye, whilst 
others hold up a large sheet like a wall, and the deer, 
being driven towards the' sheet, are there shot with 
arrows. 
“ Ajarek, is when the archers cover themselves 
with green foliage, so that nothing of the human form 
appears, and that their bows and arrows are concealed. 
Another way : — The hunter hides himself in a tree ; 
and from thence makes a noise like a deer, which 
brings the herd to that quarter, when he discharges 
his arrows upon them.” 
The following mode of catching water-fowl is ex- 
tremely curious. The manner of catching water- 
fowl is done after several ways ; but the most curious 
is the following. They make an artificial bird with the 
skin and feathers of a water-fowl, the body of which 
is hollow, so that a man may put his head into it, 
and two apertures are made for him to see through. 
The man having put his head therein, stands in the 
water up to his neck ; and getting amongst the birds, 
pulls them very dexterously under water by the legs ; 
but sometimes they are cunning enough to escape. 
In Cashmere they teach a hawk to seize the birds 
whilst swimming, and to bring them to a man who 
attends in a little boat. Those which are too large 
for the hawk to carry, it sits upon until the boat 
comes to it.” * 
I have drawn thus copiously from the Ayeen 
* Ayeen Akberry. 
