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fixteen hands high, of the breed of the old Saracen horfes, 
all finely made, and as {trong as.our coach-horfes, but ex- 
ceedingly nimble in their motion; rather thick and fhort 
in the forehand, but with the moft beautiful eyes, ears, and 
heads in the world ; they were moftly black, fome of them 
black and white, fate of them milk-white foaled, fo not 
white by age,-with white eyes and white hoofs, not De: 
haps a great recommendation. ; 
A srzex fhirt of mail hung upon each man’s quarters. 
oppofite to his horfe,and by it an antelope’s {kin made foft 
like fhamoy, with which it was covered from the dew of the 
night. A head-piece of copper, without creft or plumage, 
was fufpended by a lace above the fhirt of mail, and was 
the moft picturefque part of the trophy. To thefe was add- 
ed an enormous broad-fword in a red leather fcabbard ; 
and upon the pummel -hung two thick gloves, not divided 
into fingers as ours, but like hedgers gloves, their fingers 
in one poke. They told me, that, within that inclofure at 
Aira, there were 4co horfes, which, with the riders, and ar- | 
mour complete for each of them, were all the property of 
Shekh Adelan, every horfeman being his flave, and bought 
with his money. There were five or fix (I know not which) 
of thefe fquares.or inclofures, none of them halfa mile from 
the other, which contained the king’s horfes, flaves, and fer- 
vants. Wherher they were all in as good order as Adelan’s- 
I cannot fay, for | did not go further; but no body of horfe 
could ever be more magnificertly difpofed under the direc: 
tion of any Chriftian power, ‘ 
ApreLan was then fitting upon a piece of the trunk of a. 
. palm-tree, in the front of one of thefe divifions of his hor- 
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