Should you be caught in the snow far from your stage and have no means of procuring food for your hawks—a deadly cold wind springing up in your teeth, your hawks will certainly perish, unless fed. Remedy: at once dismount and bind the forearm of your horse. With the point of your pen-knife open the vein;[777] hold a cup underneath so that the blood may collect and congeal in it; then give this blood to your hawk that she escape death.
[777] Blood is drawn from human beings in two ways; either from between the shoulders by the process called ḥajāmat, “cupping;” or, the arm being bound above the elbow, by opening the vein in the inside of the elbow, faṣd kardan. The latter operation is attended with some danger.