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'lyO TRAVELS IN UPPER
ficient to guide them at the riders' pleasure. The
saddles have the same shape as those of Turkey,
with which every hody is acquainted : hut the bows
are still more elevated, so that the horseman is sup-
ported up to the middle before and behind. The
stirrups, or those long boxes of metal that answer
the purposes of stirrups, which receive the whole
foot, and the sharp corners of which supply the
place of spurs, are larger too than those used by
the Turks. These stirrups, which are worn very
short, are never employed for mounting on horse-
back, which is always done from a stone, or some-
thing else rising above the ground, and on the right
side of the horse.
Arabian horses, Barbs, and even Turkish and
Persian horses have been seen in France, but the
Egyptian horses are not known there. None were
imported into this country, where they were in bad
repute. The equerries, sent by the French go-
vernment in 1776 to the Levant, to select and
purchase horses, had express instructions not to buy
any of Egvpt. It must be confessed, had a con-
trary order been given, it would have been to no
purpose, for their exportation from that country is
prohibited. The reports of some travellers, Mail-
let in particular, probably gave rise to the errone-
ous opinion entertained of this breed of horses :
and, as it almost always happens with regard to
3 prejudices,
ficient to guide them at the riders' pleasure. The
saddles have the same shape as those of Turkey,
with which every hody is acquainted : hut the bows
are still more elevated, so that the horseman is sup-
ported up to the middle before and behind. The
stirrups, or those long boxes of metal that answer
the purposes of stirrups, which receive the whole
foot, and the sharp corners of which supply the
place of spurs, are larger too than those used by
the Turks. These stirrups, which are worn very
short, are never employed for mounting on horse-
back, which is always done from a stone, or some-
thing else rising above the ground, and on the right
side of the horse.
Arabian horses, Barbs, and even Turkish and
Persian horses have been seen in France, but the
Egyptian horses are not known there. None were
imported into this country, where they were in bad
repute. The equerries, sent by the French go-
vernment in 1776 to the Levant, to select and
purchase horses, had express instructions not to buy
any of Egvpt. It must be confessed, had a con-
trary order been given, it would have been to no
purpose, for their exportation from that country is
prohibited. The reports of some travellers, Mail-
let in particular, probably gave rise to the errone-
ous opinion entertained of this breed of horses :
and, as it almost always happens with regard to
3 prejudices,