Lehi Sun | 1922-08-31 | Page 4 | Eagles Trained to Hunt Wolves

Eagles Trained to Hutvt Wolves. You often read nbout tho fnlcon hunts of tho days before the Invention of sporting guns nnd smokeless powder, pow-der, I ut these hunts must bnvo been tnmo compared to a modern Korean wolf hunt with trained eagles. Off tho southwestern coast of Korea or Chosen ns It Is now called, there rises an Immcnso Isolated rock of black banalt, which forms an Islnnd-like Islnnd-like peninsula. During the dnys of Chlneso supremacy over Korea this mass of mountain projecting Into the Ben wns kept ns an englo preserve. Tho cngles wero trained and used by the emperors of Korea for pursuing amclopes und wolves. With tho exception of Stellnr's sea-eagle, sea-eagle, which preys upon young senls, the Korean sea-eagles nro tho largest of uny species found In temperate countries, though probably tho great forest englo of tho Philippines Is larger. larg-er. Their plumngo Is very dark, becoming be-coming utmost black with nge, and the heal: Is very pnlo buff, npprouchlng white.