24 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER 



Dead Sea, and to Horu ; and in all these excursions we 

 pass the greater part of onr time with the Bedouins, 

 owners of the finest horses, and we are scarcely to- 

 gether half an hour with these gentlemen without 

 getting up a race, and as they know our General 

 wants to purchase, they always bring every horse 

 likely to catch his attention. Now, I assure you that 

 on all these occasions the mare beats them all, and in 

 splendid style, although she has never been trained 

 for racing; and that she can also beat them at long 

 distances she has shown very often in hunting the 

 gazelles, running three or four miles at a stretch 

 until we caught them, being always a long way 

 ahead of the Arabs. The Bedouins insist upon her 

 being an Arab mare, though they are rather puzzled 

 at her size, as she stands 16 hands 1 inch. From 

 what I have seen of her performance, I think a well- 

 trained English horse would beat any Arab whatever, 

 and in any way. Guy on 's mare, when she was only 

 one year and a half old, went through the Hungarian 

 campaign in 1849, so she is pretty well seasoned." 



' From the above, Mr. Editor, you will see how 

 very soft owners of English horses were when they 

 refused the splendid challenge of Abbas Pasha, &c. 

 A SUBSCRIBER. 



' Cairo, Aug. 6, 1851.' 



The next attempt to get up a race between 



