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2.] When their archery failed of success, the chase depended on the hounds, which are represented as running even the full-grown animal to a stand, and then worrying him till the hunters came up to give the last blow.
Considering the speed of the full-grown wild ass, which is now regarded as almost impossible to take, we may perhaps conclude that the animals thus run down by the hounds were such as the hunters had previously wounded; for it can scarcely be supposed that such heavily-made dogs as the Assyrian could really have caught an unwounded and full-grown wild ass.

[PLATE CXXI., Fig.

3.] Instead of shooting the wild ass, or hunting him to the death with hounds, an endeavor was sometimes made to take him alive.

[PLATE CXXI., Fig.