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and abundant every where, though for the road 

 and for carriage of merchandize, the mule and 

 the camel are moft ufed. The Moors are ex- 

 cellent horfemen, and their cavalry, with very 

 little trouble, might be made the fineft in the 

 world. The men in general are handfome, of 

 a good iize, flout, adlive, and can endure fa- 

 tigue and hunger furpriiingly well ; their horfes 

 too, have every quality defirable, fo that no- 

 thing is wanting but proper arms, harnaffing, 

 and training. At prefent, they wear a fort of 

 loofe pantaloon, no flockings, a loofe robe, 

 flippers, and fpurs with one prodigious long 

 iron fpike, which ferves at once for neck and 

 for rowel ; fuch indeed is the drefs of the whole 

 country. Their arms confift of a very long 

 mufket, and a very bad Ihort fword ; their fad- 

 die has a rifmg behind, which reaches a confi- 

 derable height up the back, and another before, 

 but the thigh is no way confined. The ftirrup 

 is in the Tartar fafhion, as long and as broad as 

 the foot, and the form of the faddle neceffarily 

 obliges them to ride with very fhort Ihrrups ; 

 for if they could not raife themfelves much 

 above the feat of the faddle, it would be impof- 

 iible for them to feat themfelves in it. 



The bridle is the fame as that ufed by the 

 Tartars in general, and which I have already 

 marked to have excited my aftonifliment, at 



finding 



