The Badminton Magazine 1896-05: Vol 2 Iss 10 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 10
DEER HAWKING IN INDIA 579 captive is handled daily, and after two days’ starvation is ravenous; he is fed but sparely ; in four days he is allowed to see a little, and in a singularly short space of time he has become used to | his captor’s hand, and his training begins. The back of the obara is… … month of capture, and carried them myself through a long day’s hawking. We will suppose all the training completed and start out with six. They are carried by men on foot on the hands or shoulders, | never on perches such as one sees in the old pictures of English hawking. These men are Pathans of…
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