Note 141 — The Fifteenth New Year’s Feast after the Auspicious Accession
Alexander Rogers translation
As the time was short and the hour of marching near, I took a short circuit and returned. These few days I passed pleasantly in catching141 ducks. One day, in the midst of the sport, a boatman caught and brought me a young qarqara (the demoiselle crane, Ardea virgo). It was very thin and miserable. It did not live longer than one night. The qarqara does not live in Kashmir. This had become ill and thin at the time of coming from, or going to, Hindustan, and fallen there.