Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Riding Down an Eagle. [ARTICLE]

Riding Down an Eagle.

If you wanted a live eagle, how would you try to catch it? lu Turkestan, according to the author of "The Heart of a Continent,” the natives ride eagles-down on horseback: We have seen two eagles on the ground in the distance, and as soon as the Kirghiz caught sight of them lie set oIT wildly in pursuit. They rose, of course, on seeing him, but he went galloping down the valley after one of them til! gradually it sank to the ground. It was, in fact,gorged with the llesh of the carcass it had been feeding on, and eould not longer fly. The Kirghiz dismounted, seized the bird, bound his waist-cloth round and round the body and wings till he had made it up into a neat parcel, and then tucked it under his arm, 4 nounted and rode back to me. He said that, if it turned out to be a good one for linwkiug, he might get 200 rupees for it.