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HAwking with the long winged Hawke▪ of which they haue greater store and better then we haue in these parts of y• world: their game is the •…•…awde, a land •…•…owle like vnto a Drak•…•…, and so ryseth the Curwan, Ti∣gernut•…•…, which we haue not in England, the Bustard, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 h•…•…, Pl•…•…sant, Partridge, Ducke, and Mallar•…•….
Hunting of the Stagge, Antilop, Koe-Bucke, Hare, Fox, Debe, halfe a Dog halfe a For, wilde Bore, Ti∣ger, wilde Cat, Leopard.
In the sandie countries, where the best horses are bred, which ordinarily will drinke milke, and can fast from water 4 daies, there they hunt the Estridges, mar∣king when they come to water, which they doe at set times in flocks or companies, then the horsmen disperse themselues, and first one troope of horse let vpon yt heard of Estridges▪ which the birds perceiuing, betake them to the wing, not flying aloft from the ground, but making a running flight so fast as it tryeth their horses in their full spéede, and most commonly tyreth thrée companies of horses, one after another, ere they bee taken. The birds haue at the end of their wings a horne growing, which, in running and mouing of their wingges, in manner of a spurre pr•…•…cketh them, as it were to make spéede, and therewith are sore •…•…led, as may be per∣ceaued at their taking. These birds, some hunt for ple∣sure, others for profite of their feathers, their carkasses not any wise good to be eaten.