BICHARI CAMEL- RIDE11S, UPPER EGYPT 



siya, and they always have one or more such events. The 

 entries to these number all manner of horsemen, armed 

 and unarmed, who ride more or less wild figures to more 

 or less monotonous drumming music, and who end by a 

 most excited and QJLQA\A^ pot-pourri of feat riding. They 

 stand in their stirrups and throw their guns in the air, 

 whirl them about in the most approved warlike style, and 

 fire them at intervals in what seems an uncalled for and 

 dangerous fashion until you know r that they are loaded 

 only with blank-cartridge. The horses for the moment par- 

 take the enthusiastic bedevilment of their masters, and 

 rear, wheel, kick, buck, rush, stop, turn, and twist for all 

 the world like a bunch of broncos after a winter's rest, 



