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قراءة كتاب The Art and Practice of Hawking
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THE ART AND PRACTICE
OF HAWKING
THE
ART AND PRACTICE
OF HAWKING
BY
E. B. MICHELL
WITH THREE PHOTOGRAVURES BY G. E. LODGE
AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET, W. C.
LONDON
1900
TO THE
EARL AND COUNTESS OF WARWICK
AND ALL OTHER LOVERS OF HAWKING
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
Notwithstanding the large number of books, both ancient and modern, which have been written on the art of Hawking, it cannot be said that the English-speaking people generally have more than a very vague idea of the character of the sport, or the mode in which it was, and still is, conducted.
Yet, in an experience of Hawking which extends over more than thirty years, the author has found that a great and increasing curiosity, and even a real interest in the subject, prevails, especially amongst sporting men, who are in many notable instances beginning to believe that hawks and their owners have been unduly disparaged, and that there is more to be said in their favour than has for the last two centuries been imagined.
There has not been space in this volume to discuss the much-vexed question how far the use of hawks is compatible with the preservation of game. But it may be said here, without any reservation, that wherever experiments have been actually tried, Hawking has been found not to spoil but to improve the shooting.
The object of the author has been to describe as briefly as was consistent with clearness the birds now chiefly used in the chase, and the manner of training and flying them. His hope is that some of the sportsmen who read these pages may, in spite of the difficulties which they will have to encounter, resolve to give this old and honourable sport a trial.
The use of technical terms has been avoided as far as possible; and those which could not be excluded have been explained in the text. When the reader is puzzled by any word, a reference to the Index will direct him to the page where the meaning of it is given.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| History and Literature | |
| PAGES | |
| Antiquity of hawking in China—Introduction into Europe—Royal and Imperial falconers—Decline of the sport—Survival and revivals—Modern falconers—Early writers—Leading authorities—Modern books | 1-8 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| The Birds Used in Hawking | |
| Three classes—Long-winged hawks: Ger-peregrine, and kindred varieties, shaheens, barbary, saker, lanner, and desert falcons, hobby, merlin, and kestrel—Short-winged hawks: goshawks and sparrow-hawks—Eagles, golden, Bonelli’s, etc., falconets | 9-39 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Furniture and Fittings | |
| Jesses—Bells—Swivels—Leashes—The screen-perch—Blocks— Bow-perches—Hoods—Brails—The bath—The lure—Cadges— Gloves—Mews | 40-54 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Eyesses and Hack Hawks | |
| Taking from the eyrie—Feeding—Turning out to hack—The board system—Hacking to the lure, and to the hand—Learning to fly—Dangers and diversions of hack—Taking up—The bow-net | 55-69 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Passage Hawks | |
| Valk enswaard—Hawk-catcher’s hut—The shrike sentinel— Handling the wild-caught hawk—The sock—The dark cell—Prison fare—Early discipline—Waking—Hooding—Carrying—Manning— Pegging out | 70-86 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Training and Entering | |
| Reclamation of wild-caught and hack hawks—Making to the lure— Calling off—The first quarry—Innocent deceptions—Making in— Waiting on—Stooping to the lure—Exercise | 87-100 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Rook-Hawking | |
| Good and bad country—Entering to rooks—Throwing off— Ringing flights—Shifting—Throwing up—Putting in—Riding to hawks | 101-114 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Game-Hawking | |
| Eyesses and passagers—Teaching to mount and to wait on— | |