He stops his chariot, gets down, and leaving the driver in charge of the vehicle, ensconces himself behind a tree, and thus screened lets fly an arrow against the quarry, which strikes it midway in the chest.

(3) Weak and bleeding copiously, the stag attempts to escape; but the hunter pursues and takes possession of him without having to shoot a second time.

(4) The hour is come now for a rest.

The sportsman has reached a wood, in which date-bearing palms are intermingled with trees of a different kind.

He fastens his game to one of them, and proceeds to the skinning and the disembowelling.