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one another ; and on the top of each of them there 

 was fixed a spear, bearing the mark which the archers 

 were to shoot at ; and the like was on the other side ; 

 so that in the middle betwixt them there was as 

 much room left as might serve for six horses to run 

 abreast. In this plain a great number of young men 

 clad in richly-embroidered silk, with their usual light 

 arms, mounted their sprightly horses, and began their 

 games in this manner : 



First : They ran at full career betwixt the first 

 two of these hillocks, and dextrously shot their 

 arrows at the marks that were fixed to the tops of the 

 spears, both on the right and left hand. 



Next they rode in the same manner out between 

 the other two, and filled the marks with their arrows. 



Just s6 with the same speed they ran through the 

 rest, and shot their arrows so artfully, that not one of 

 them missed his aim. 



After these young men had performed their parts, 

 and had left none of the marks untouched, every one 

 took his little spear that hung behind his back (as if 

 they minded to act, not at a distance, but hand to hand), 

 and retired a little out of the way, till the rest of the 

 youth had performed as they had done. After which 

 all of them, in the same order as they began, marched 

 through the same way they had ridden, but now at a 



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