[74] The kemend or noose of the ancient Persians appears to be the lasso of the modern South Americans, and was employed to snare prisoners as well as wild cattle. It is well known and often used in India by some tribes of robbers and murderers of that country, who cast it over the head of the unwary traveller with an expertness that would do credit to a native of the Pampas. [75] A representation of this combat is given in Dibdin's Decameron, vol. iii, p. 475. [76] "Too kâr-e-zemeen-râ nikoo sakktee Kih ber kâr-e-âsmân-neez perdâkhtee." CHAPTER XIII. Travellers and Antiquaries--Wild Ass--Hawking--Mâder-e-Sûlimân--Akleed--Mirrors--Mehdee Khan--Isfahan--Persian Citizens and Peasantry--Shâh Abbas the Great--Hâroon-oor-Rasheed--Nethenz. The love of travel, visiting the remains of former grandeur, and of tracing the history of ancient nations, which is so common in Europe, causes wonder in the Asiatics, amongst whom there is little or no spirit of curiosity or speculation. Men who live in ill-governed and unquiet communities can spare no time for such objects from the active occupations incident to their place in society. In better regulated and more settled governments, the state, by divesting men of all immediate care respecting life and property, almost compels those of its subjects whose minds are active, and whose time is at their own disposal, to provide for themselves such a portion of vicissitude and trouble as shall overcome that apathy and inertness into which they might otherwise fall. From these motives they court toil and care, and sometimes danger, to make them relish the feast of existence.