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✈️ Travel·3 days ago·1 min read

The soul says, "We are not silent, O mortals."

Awami Awaz
The soul says, "We are not silent, O mortals."

This fourth part of the autobiography "Moti Moon Nah Wanjija" details the author's childhood learning experiences, particularly in hunting and swimming, skills emphasized with the Sindhi proverb: "He who does not learn to read, swim, hunt, and ride in youth, faces hardship in old age." The author learned to shoot with a .410 bore rifle from his father and hunted partridges and hares with his uncle, Dost Mohammad, who was a skilled marksman. The article describes different methods for hunting black and grey partridges, including shooting them in flight and a unique method for grey partridges at dusk when they roost in trees. It also explains a "lure" method for black partridges using a caged bird during mating season. The author notes the distinct calls of male and female partridges and criticizes a dictionary of Sheikh Ayaz's poetry for misinterpreting the word "Keero Keero" as the call of a black partridge, clarifying it is the call of a female grey partridge. The piece also touches on learning to swim in canals and the Sindhi Dhoree, a wide river, with a reference to a poetic verse by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai about "blind" and "bank" in relation to water.

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