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Show BEDOUINS AND THEIR HORSES Nomad of the Desert Ride the Most Beautiful Animals Ever Subjugated Sub-jugated by Man. ' ' Charlco Doughty describes r moot ing with oomo Arab horsemen In tho desert. These wrao near; tlioy np- . prouclicd Ida party and proved to be thrco long-hnlrcd Bedouins, wb bid them nalnani (peaco). Then ho tells of - Iiow "a fourth sho'ck-hnlred cyclops tot tho desert, whom the flectness of their mnrcfi had outstripped, trotted In after them, uncouthly seated upon - ' tho rnwbone, narrow withers of his xlromodnry, without saddle, without bridle, and only as n herdsman driving with Ills volco and tho camel-stick. Ills fellows rodo with naked legs and unshod un-shod upon their beautiful marcs' baro , backs, tbo halter In ono band, nnd tho long balanced lanco, wavering upon I ' ' ' the shoulder, In tho other. Wo should think them sprawling riders; for n j - boast or warlike exorcise, In tho prcs- ' nco of our nrmod company, thoy let us view how fairly they could rldo n j career and turn; striking back heels, and seated low with pressed thighs, ' they parted at n hnnd gullop, tuado a tourney or two easily upon the plain ; nd now wheeling wide, they betook r themselves down In tho desert, every ' man bearing and handling, his spenra ' as nt point . . .; so fetching a compass i j ; and wo innrcblng, they a llttlo out of ' breath camo gallantly again. Under I tho most ragged of these riders was a '"' ,' vcry perfect young and startling chest- f. nut marp so sliapcly there nro fow omong them. Never combed by her rudo master, bnt nil shining, beautiful and gentle of herself, sho seemed n darling ilfu upon that snvago soli not ' . worthy of her gracious pasterns ; Uio . strutting tall flowed down even to tbo ground, nnd tho mono (orfa) was ehed by tho loving nurturo of her mother nature." |