Identifier: baznamayinasirip00husarich (find matches)
Title: The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri, a Persian treatise on falconry;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Husam al-Dawlah Timur Mirza, d. 1874 Phillott, Douglas Craven, 1860-1930, tr
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Publisher: London, B. Quaritch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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not to be found, you must of necessityhave recourse to trains. Next fly her at a raven.^ If she takeit, give her only a little meat and save the raven alive. On themorrow fly her at this raven from a good long distance : as soonas she takes it, cut the ravens throat and let her just taste theblood, but feed her up on the flesh of a pigeon or of a chicken,for the flesh of the raven is not a suitable food for hawks. On the following day take your hawk and go to some spotwhere only two or three half-tame undistuibed cranes are accns- 1 Dastl, adj. - Hfihara or ahiihara, Per.; and Ijuhdra, Ar. ^ MurghCihl-yi, sar-sah::, P.; murghdbl-yi shil hush, P.T. ; xhiJ, for T.yeshil, green. • Htiqur (for uqdr) ; vide page 136, note 1. ^ Pilla pilla bald ml-ravad: pilla (m. c.) is the rung of a ladder,a step, etc. 7 Dast-par. . ^ Kuldqh-i quzqnn. •• Bu si durnd-yi nazdik-i drdvm va amln. Duma, P., or tjirnd, T., isthe common crane; also called kulanh or kulang—the coolan ofAnglo-Indians. 131
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XXIIITooG pebectRI>t: (exgush block axd ixdi.vx hood) # 132 BAZ-NAMA-YI NASIRI tomed to feed. Get close up to them and cast off your hawk. Ifyour shaliin bind to the quarry, get in as quick as you can andsecure the cranes wings; ^ cut its throaty rip open its breast, andfeed your hawk. If the slidliln bind to the head of the quarry bat let it go againafter a slight struggle, call her to the lure and quickly feed her upon the warm flesh of a pigeon or of a chicken, and, on the morrow,she will not fail you. If the 6-hdhln approach the crane close, but neither strike itnor stoop at it, act in the same way, i.e., lure her and feed her onwarm flesh; for amongst falconers it is accepted as a fact that, ifAsholun chase the quarry at which she is unhooded, only for thelength of her leash, and be then quickly fed on warm palaiahleflesh, she will, on the morrow, chase the same quarry for doublethat distance. Fly her, I say, on the morrow, and if she again chases andagain fails, lure her and

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