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made to allow the camels to catch them up. No water 

 was obtainable on the way, and the horses were only 

 watered once i.e., during the long halt on the 29th. 

 After fourteen hours' rest at Khargeh, the party pro- 

 ceeded to Beris, distant sixty miles, which they reached 

 at 2 P.M. on the 2d of July. No horses were lost. Here 

 four hundred men and all the horses were left, and after- 

 wards made their way to the Nile at Esneh, distant about 

 one hundred and twenty miles. I am not in possession of 

 any details of the march, but as the party was unaccom- 

 panied by camels and no water is obtainable on the way, 

 it was probably more rapid than that from the Nile to 

 Khargeh." 



This march, especially in view of the want of water, is 

 of great interest. It ranks well with some of our own 

 cavalry marches, but does not quite approach the best. 



The Arabian's gait is usually pure; you meet many 

 trappy goers who have what one is apt to call a peculiarly 

 Arabian style of picking up their feet, neat and rapid, but 

 not too high, and very attractive. I have come across 

 more shying Arabians than I expected, no more, perhaps, 

 than there are with us; but a horse which is so docile 

 ought not to shy at all. You see many stylish ones when 

 they go out fresh or are feeling particularly well ; but I 

 have never met one who showed vice or stubborn temper. 

 There are some, but they are few; the Arabian seems 

 easy to manage and easy to sit when putting on airs. 

 Taken as a race, his manners are irreproachable. 



One finds in Algiers quite a number of Percherons at 

 draught ; occasionally a mixture between Perch eron and 

 Arab. Now and then a cob, stranded by some swell from 

 London or Paris, disconsolately seeks his kind on the 

 streets of this delightful city. A few ponies, and from 

 time to time a fine English - hunter type of imported 



