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THROUGH AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY. 59
curving claws pierce the back or head of their victim.
With a few careless movements of the head and violent
jerks they pluck fiercel}^ at the feathers or hair of their
prey, but only in one little spot. Then, shifting their
claws, they take another sure grip, and pick away first
A Hunting Eagle.
on one side and then on the other, and in this way they
devour their victim alive, strip by strip.
The 27th October was to be our last day on the Yarkand-
daria, for in the evening our guides assured us we should
reach the mouth of the Aksu-daria. It is below the con-
Iluence of these two streams that the name Tarim is given
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