Storia do Mogor 354.10.2

354.10.2

This Dã,ud Khãn is very much interested in the chase, and has great delight in different kinds of animals. In his train he always keeps tigers, leopards, hawks, falcons, etc. Of ducks alive he has one thousand, besides many other birds. For the maintenance of all these animals he expends every year two hundred and fifty thousand rupees. Whenever he hears of any parrots, cockatoos, or similar rare animals, he sends at once to purchase them without any regard to price.