Note 217 — Chapter XIX · THE SAKER[196] FALCON (F. Cherrug)
D. C. (Douglas Craven) Phillott translation
The Sheikh of Baḥrayn keeps many sakers and peregrines which are flown at houbara on the opposite Persian Coast. The translator once travelled with the Sheikh’s two sons in a B. I. boat: they had fifty or sixty falconers and as many peregrines and sakers, all, with one exception, young and newly trained.