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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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seeing a Kirghiz catch an eagle for this purpose by riding it
down. When I first saw the man starting off to gallop down
an eagle, I thought he must be mad. We had seen two eagles
on the ground in the distance, and as soon as the Kirghiz
caught sight of them he set off wildly after them. They, of
course, rose on seeing him, but he went careering down the
valley after one of them till gradually the bird sank down to
the ground. It was, in fact, gorged with the flesh of the
carcase it had been feeding on, and could no longer fly. The
Kirghiz dismounted, seized hold of the bird, bound his waist-
cloth round and round the body and wings till he had made
it up into a neat parcel, and then tucked it under his arm,
mounted, and rode back to me. He said that, if it turned
out to be a good one for hawking, he might get two hundred
rupees for it. I questioned the owner of the eagle in the tent
in which we were now staying about the training of these
eagles, but he was too surly to give me any satisfactory
answers, and it was with no very grateful feelings towards him
that we left his camp on the following morning.
We travelled hard all day, and, at the end of a march of
forty-six miles, over a country mostly composed of bare hills
and gravel plains, but with occasional clumps of trees in the
hollows, we reached a wide plain of light clay, in the middle
of which we found a very large encampment of fully a
hundred tents. But the inhabitants were far from friendly,
and it was only after considerable difficulty that a man was
found who was willing to put us up. Rahmat-ula-Khan was
very tactful and persuasive, but he told me that night that the
people were very badly disposed towards us, and advised me
to be watchful.
Next morning matters were worse. As I mounted to
ride away, crowds of these rough Kirghiz collected round
me, gesticulating wildly. I asked Rahmat-ula-Khan what
was the matter, and he said that they had determined
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