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DEAN MAHOMET.
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LETTER XXIII.
DEAR SIR.
THE principal rural ſports of the people of Indoſtan, are hunting and hawking: they purchaſe hawks and other birds of prey from Perſia, which are taught to fly at all manner of game.
The Soubahs and other great characters of the country, find much amuſement in the combats of wild beaſts. The elephant often encounters the elephant, with a rider mounted on each, to manage them, on a large ſpace of ground paled in
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