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Affghan Ameer amongst ANIMALS ARTHUR HENFREY Bahri Bashah Bauli Bazdar beak Beloch bird black partridge called cardamoms cast CHAPTER colour crow curlew Europe European eyes eyesses falconer falconer's falconry favourable favourite Fcap feathers fellow female fist flown gazelle goshawk grey partridge ground hand hare Hari Chand hawk's head heron HISTORY OF BRITISH hood hunting hyæna Ibrahim Khan Illustrations Indian jesses Jheel JOHN VAN VOORST Kakoo Mall Khairu Khorasan Laghar leash legs light lure male Meer Ibrahim Khan Mirza Mohammed moult Natives of Scinde NATURAL HISTORY Neem tree never noble Oriental partridge PATERNOSTER ROW perch Persian pinions plumage plume Post 8vo prey Professor quarry reason reclaiming relation of Anatomy round-winged royal 8vo Sahib Scindian Sebright Second Edition seeling Shahbaz Shikargah Shikrah short-winged sight sparrow-hawk sport swoop tall talons tiercel tiercelet Ukab unhooded vols wild wings YARRELL ZOOPHYTES
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Page 109 - NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ISLES. This Series of Works is Illustrated by many Hundred Engravings; every Species has been Drawn and Engraved under the immediate inspection of the Authors ; the best Artists have been employed, and no care or expense has been spared. A few Copies have been printed on Larger Paper.
Page 102 - ... the East knows. Or he played chess with some native friend, or he consorted with the hemp-drinkers and opium-eaters in the estaminets, or he visited the Mrs. Gadabouts and Go-betweens who make matches amongst the Faithful, and gathered from them a precious budget of private history and domestic scandal.
Page 100 - With hair falling upon his shoulders, a long beard, face and hands, arms and feet, stained with a thin coat of henna, Mirza Abdullah of Bushire — your humble servant — set out upon many and many a trip. He was a Bazzaz, a vendor of fine linen, calicoes, and muslins ; — such chapmen are sometimes admitted to display their wares, even in the sacred harem, by " fast " and fashionable dames — and he had a little pack of bijouterie and virtu reserved for emergencies.
Page 101 - It was only, however, when absolutely necessary that he displayed his stock-in-trade; generally, he contented himself with alluding to it on all possible occasions, boasting largely of his traffic, and asking a thousand questions concerning the state of the market. Thus he could walk into most men's houses, quite without ceremony; even if the master dreamed of kicking him out, the mistress was sure to oppose such measure with might and main. He secured numberless invitations, was proposed to by several...
Page 101 - Oriental dress, riding spear in hand, and pistols in holsters, towards the little encampment pitched near their settlements. But regularly every evening on the line of march the Mirza issued from his tent and wandered amongst them, collecting much information and dealing out more concerning an ideal master, — the Feringhee supposed to be sitting in state amongst the...