[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 9.4.2 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 9.4.2 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 9.4.2 - **Language:** English ### [9.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.4.2) In the neighbourhoods of Agra and Dehli, along the course of the Gemna, reaching to the mountains, and even on both sides of the road leading to Lahor, there is a large quantity of uncultivated land, covered either with copse wood or with grasses six feet high. All this land is guarded with the utmost vigilance; and excepting partridges, quails, and hares, which the natives catch with nets, no person, be he who he may, is permitted to disturb the game, which is consequently very abundant. Whenever the Monarch is about to take the field, every gamekeeper \[Gardes Chasses\] near whose district the army is to pass is called upon to apprise the Grand Master of the Hunt of the various sorts of game under his particular charge, and of the places where they are in the greatest plenty. Sentries are then stationed at the different roads of that district, to guard the tract of ground selected, which extends sometimes four or five leagues; and while the army is on its march, on one side or the other, so as to avoid that tract, the King enters it with as many Omrahs and other persons as have liberty to do so, and enjoys, leisurely and uninterruptedly, the sports of the field, varying them according to the nature of the game. I shall, in the first place, describe the manner in which they chase antelopes with tame leopards. I think that I have elsewhere told you that there are in the Indies large numbers of antelopes, very much resembling our fawns in shape; - [Previous: 9.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.4.1) - [Next: 9.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.4.3) - [Up: 9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.9.4.2) · Pramāṇa