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because, immediately we reached the halting 

 place, they were turned out for the night to fo- 

 rage for themselves ; they were rough, dirty, in 

 fact, shabby-looking, sorry creatures, and yet tliey 

 never failed in their work, and, if allowed to go 

 their own pace, it appeared to us, would never 

 tire. 



The difference between travelling tatar and 

 menzili I conceive to be this, that a tatar must 

 always have horses instanteVy whether they are to 

 be found or no (i. e. they must be found), whereas, 

 a common traveller is only entitled to menzili 

 horses when they are to be found, or as soon as 

 they can be procured, which operation may take 

 sometimes half a day, because the mussuleim, or 

 head of the town, is sure to be asleep, and cannot 

 be awakened ; when he does awake, he sends a 

 Turk, as sleepy as himself, to press into the ser- 

 vice the horses of some unfortunate country peo- 

 ple, and by the time they arrive, the traveller's 

 patience is wellnigh exhausted. 



As it happened, we found no reason to be dis- 

 satisfied with the arrangement we had made to 

 go on with the same horses. They did the work 

 quite as well as any others would have done, and 

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