Show I BEDOUINS AND THEIR HORSES Nomads of the Desert Ride the Most Beautiful Animals Ever Subjugated Subjugated SubJugated Sub Sub- by Man s Charlen Charles Doughty describes a meeting meet meet- meeting ing with some Arab horsemen In the desert These came near they ap approached ape ap- approached his party and proved to be he three long-haired long Bedouins wh bid them salaam peace Then he tells of how a fourth shock-haired shock cyclops of the desert whom the fleetness of ot their mares had outstripped trotted In after them uncouthly seated upon the time narrow withers of his dromedary without saddle without bridle and only as a herdsman driving with him h h voice and the camel His fellows rode with naked legs and unshod unshod unshod un un- shod upon their beautiful mares' mares bare backs the halter In one hand and the thelong thelong thelong long balanced lance wavering upon the shoulder in the other We should think them sprawling riders for a boast or warlike exercise In the presence presence presence pres pres- ence of our armed company company they let letus letus letus us view how fairly they could ride a career and turn striking back heels and seated low with pressed thighs they parted at a hand gallop made a tourney or two easily upon the plain and now wheeling wide they betook themselves down in the desert every everyman everyman everyman man bearing and handling his spears as as at point so fetching a compass add we marching they a little out of ot breath came gallantly again Under the most ragged of these riders was a avery avery avery very perfect young and startling chestnut chestnut chestnut chest chest- nut mare mare so so shapely there are few among them Never combed by her rude master but all shining beautiful and gentle of herself she seemed a darling life upon that savage soil not worthy of ot her gracious pasterns the strutting tall tail flowed down even to the ground and the mane orfa orta was shed by the loving nurture of ot her mother na nature ture |