RESTORATION AFTER DROWNING
Should your hawk fall into a stream and be swept away,[778] and when
recovered be lifeless, the treatment, even though the hawk has been
apparently dead for half an hour, is as follows. _Treatment_: light a
fire and lay the hawk down by the side of it. Collect the hot ashes
under the wings and heap ashes on the back, and as soon as the ashes
cool, pile on other ashes, fresh and warm. The ashes must not be so
hot as to burn the feathers. In a short time, by God’s decree, the
dead hawk will come to life. This remedy is suitable for a man also,
or, indeed, for any beast that has been drowned. It is efficacious
even up to half or three quarters of an hour after insensibility. I
have several times successfully tried this remedy on man, beast, and
bird.
When a man is half-drowned, and with death is at strife,
Hot ashes for him are the Water of Life.
FOOTNOTES:
[778] A hawk that falls into deep _still_ water can flap its way to
shore—certainly for twenty or thirty yards.