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foot's pace is not a disagreeable seat ; and if the 

 horse is obliged to have the English saddle on his 

 back, the owner grumbles, because he thinks his 

 horse will be injured by it, and the pack-saddle is 

 placed, as an extra load, upon some other horse of 

 the company. 



With post-horses, therefore, I would have an 

 English saddle ; with pack-horses, I should be 

 satisfied with that belonging to the animal itself. 



If a traveller chooses to travel day and night, 

 and desires to arrive at his journey's end as 

 quickly as possible, without caring about seeing 

 the country in his route, it is undoubtedly the 

 best way to hire a tatar, who, going as a person 

 in authority, can always procure horses at each 

 post station without delay, and is allowed to 

 make the unfortunate animals travel as fast as he 

 pleases. 



If, however, as was our case, he is travelling 

 for amusement, and is not particularly desirous 

 of over-fatiguing himself by riding day and night 

 without stopping, it is, in my opinion, the best plan 

 to have no tatar, as one of these gentry is a very 

 great additional expense. A tatar will do the 

 distance from Janina to Constantinople in six 

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