They are somewhat difficult to run down with dogs only, except immediately after they have drunk water in hot weather.

That the Assyrians sometimes captured them, appears by a hunting scene which Mr.Layard discovered at Khorsabad, where an attendant is represented carrying a gazelle on his shoulders, and holding a hare in his right hand.

[PLATE CXXIV., Fig.

1.] As gazelles are very abundant both in the Sinjar country and in the district between the Tigris and the Zagros range, we may suppose that the Assyrians sometimes came upon them unawares, and transfixed them with their arrows before they could make their escape.

They may also have taken them in nets, as they were accustomed to take deer; but we have no evidence that they did so.
[Illustration: PLATE 124] The hare is seen very commonly in the hands of those who attend upon the huntsmen.