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it has been measured in cubits. A horse performing 

 this journey every day, and having as much barley as 

 it likes to eat, can go on without fatigue for three or 

 four months without lying by a single day." 



The Arabs on their razzias, or cattle- 

 stealing expeditions, of necessity travel with 

 as little encumbrance as possible : on such 

 expeditions, which may require twenty or 

 twenty-five days' rapid travel, each horse- 

 man carries only enough barley to give his 

 mount eight feeds. In some parts of the 

 Sahara green food is never given ; frequent 

 watering is recommended by all Arab horse- 

 men. 



An Arab of the Arbaa tribe gave General 

 Daumas full particulars of a ride he once 

 undertook to save a highly prized mare from 

 the hands of the Turks. In twenty-four 

 hours he rode her eighty leagues, and during 

 the journey she obtained nothing to eat but 

 leaves of the dwarf palm, and was watered 

 once. 



More directly bearing on our present 

 enquiry are the particulars furnished by 

 Colonel Duringer of the weights carried 

 in most of the expeditions by the horses of 

 the Chasseurs d'Afrique. These details were 

 ascertained by the Colonel at the moment 

 of departure of a column : Horseman, 180 



