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was the more necessary as her nerves had 

 been much shaken by all the dangers and 

 difficulties she had passed through, to say 

 nothing of the insufficient food. 



My host continued his kind hospitality 

 and in a few days the horse made his 

 appearance, but he gave me the idea of 

 having been starved ; he was a fine looking 

 grey Arab, but wanted flesh, and had a 

 sore back which had evidently been greatly 

 neglected. I did not recognise the horse 

 as one I had seen before, but this was not 

 to be wondered at, as nearly all the Arabs 

 are grey, and every gentleman rode one in 

 those days ; they were much cheaper than 

 they now are, as a good one could be pro- 

 cured for some four or five hundred rupees, 

 whereas now you would pay a thousand or 

 twelve hundred rupees for the same sort of 

 animal. This horse embarrassed me a 



