HAWKING. 
from each, other. If it happen that the bustards take to flight 
too soon, the spot where they settle is marked down, and the 
line advances until it comes upon a flock that have not left 
the ground, or that only rise at a short distance. In either 
case one or two of the best falcons are loosed. Some bustards 
permit themselves to be killed on the spot ; but as this mode 
of action offers no interest, the Arabs endeavour to prevent the 
bustards from awaiting the falcon. 
In the latter case, the bird selected at first dashes among the 
flock, in order to be confounded with the other birds ; but when 
it perceives itself to be closely pressed, it darts vertically up- 
wards, so as to keep itself above its pursuer. At that point the 
remaining falcons are loosed. Generally the battle is a long 
one, and the bustard cannot be dragged to the ground till the 
falcons have been able to rise above it to bind it, and to break 
one of its wings, or peck out an eye. Then, in the midst of the 
circle formed by the horsemen down fall bustard and falcons, 
and it not unfrequently happens that the latter are killed by 
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HOOD PROPER.’ 
