THE GREENLAND FALCON. 
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or “manning” can only be commenced after the Falcon 
has learnt to know its master, and is carried out in 
the following manner. After the Falcon has been carried 
unhooded on the fist for some hours, it is placed on a 
perch in a room, the long “jesses” still remaining 
attached to the glove; the food is then taken, and the 
bird invited in friendly tones to feed from the fist: if 
it responds, it receives its food, and the lesson is repeated 
until the falconer succeeds in making the Falcon come to 
call from a considerable distance. The same course is 
now pursued out of doors, and the long “jesses” are 
lengthened by a string, until the Falcon will fly some 
thirty or forty paces to meet its master: this treatment 
is then persevered in at increasing distances, until the 
bird becomes thoroughly accustomed to receiving its food 
on the hand of the falconer; the line is now abandoned; 
the Falcon, however, is never fed but on the fist. The 
next thing to be done, and one which is accompanied 
with some difficulty with an obstinate bird, is to 
accustom it to horses and hounds. Obstinacy is 
generally overcome by starvation and want of sleep: 
the bird is kept awake for two days and nights, and 
is only fed as much as is absolutely necessary during 
that time. 
For hawking winged game, a Falcon is most readily 
trained by flying it in company with another bird, 
of the same kind, thoroughly used to the chase: 
without such an assistant the final training will require- 
much care and patience. The falconer must procure 
young Herons from the nest, feed and tame them, 
and then attach one to a long line, like the Falcon, 
letting both fly, until the latter shows its natural 
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