EXPEDIENT IF MEAT FAIL
Should you be caught in the snow far from your stage and have no means
of procuring food for your hawks—a deadly cold wind springing up in
your teeth, your hawks will certainly perish, unless fed. _Remedy_: at
once dismount and bind the forearm of your horse. With the point of
your pen-knife open the vein;[777] hold a cup underneath so that the
blood may collect and congeal in it; then give this blood to your hawk
that she escape death.
FOOTNOTES:
[777] Blood is drawn from human beings in two ways; either from
between the shoulders by the process called _ḥajāmat_, “cupping;” or,
the arm being bound above the elbow, by opening the vein in the inside
of the elbow, _faṣd kardan_. The latter operation is attended with
some danger.