[389] Āb-k͟hur kardan.
[390] With a new hawk it is a good thing to attract her attention by flicking the water in the cup with the finger.
[391] —tā bi-istirāḥat ṣarf bi-kunad.
[392] Place illegible.
[393] Kabk-i darī, Tetraogallus Caspius.
[394] —galla-yi kabk-i darī ki bi-qadar-i bīst si dāna būdand.
[395] Dast-raw dar havā girift.
[396] Qibla is the point to which Muslims turn in prayer. Applied to the Shāh it signifies that he is one to whom all bear their requests.
CHAPTER XXX
“RECLAIMING”[400] THE PASSAGE SAKER
Should a passage falcon with “seeled”[401] eyes come into your possession the first thing is to examine it carefully and classify it. Having decided on the race to which the falcon belongs, fit her with some suitable name such as Ṣult̤ān, Ẓarg͟hām, Fāris, Shabīb, Ḥabīb, Maḥbūb, Shahāb, Badrān, etc.[402] Next fit her with an old hood that is soft and easy, one that will not, by hurting her eyes, make her hood-shy.[403] Let her eyes remain seeled under the hood for three days. Every day when you feed her, call her name. On the third or fourth day, i.e., as soon as she has learnt to feed freely, which she will show by searching eagerly for food when you mention her name, unseel her eyes about two hours to sunset, and then rehood her. Call her name, and when she bends her hooded head in search of food, give her a mouthful or two. Then stroke her on the breast, the thighs, and the wings, and again remove the hood that she may see daylight, and quickly replace it. Continue this treatment till half an hour before sunset. Then set her down and leave her till after the evening prayer.[404] Then again take her on the fist and sit near the lamp, with your back to the wall, so that none may come behind you and your hawk. Again call her name, and when she lowers her head reward her with a mouthful. Stroke her as before. Carry her thus for three or four hours. After that, set her on her perch for the night, fastening the hood tight that she may not cast it during the night.