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310 TRAVELS IN UPPER
The crust of their hoofs is defended by thin
and light shoes. The saddles they wear are
shaped like pack-saddles, rounded, and height-
ened by a pad softly stuffed, on which the rider
sits much farther back than on a horse. The stir-
rups, which are shaped nearly like ours, have only
a single fiat bar at bottom, the breadth of three
fingers. Men ride without any housings; but
for women a piece of tapestry, more or less rich,
and sometimes reaching to the ground, is laid
over this saddle. The asses are bridled in the
same manner as the horses. In the principal
streets of Cairo, and in the squares, they stand
for hire ready bridled and saddled, being the
hackney coaches of this city. The person who
lets them accompanies his ass, running behind to
goad him on, and cry out to those who walk on
foot to make way. When on a journey, the rider
himself carries in his hand a little stick pointed
with iron, with which he pricks his beast on the
withers.
When the rider alights, he has no occasion to
tie up his ass. He merely pulls the rein of the
bridle tight, and passes it over a ring on the fore-
part of the saddle, which, confining the head of
the beast, is sufficient to make him remain pa-
tiently in his p!ac£.
Though
The crust of their hoofs is defended by thin
and light shoes. The saddles they wear are
shaped like pack-saddles, rounded, and height-
ened by a pad softly stuffed, on which the rider
sits much farther back than on a horse. The stir-
rups, which are shaped nearly like ours, have only
a single fiat bar at bottom, the breadth of three
fingers. Men ride without any housings; but
for women a piece of tapestry, more or less rich,
and sometimes reaching to the ground, is laid
over this saddle. The asses are bridled in the
same manner as the horses. In the principal
streets of Cairo, and in the squares, they stand
for hire ready bridled and saddled, being the
hackney coaches of this city. The person who
lets them accompanies his ass, running behind to
goad him on, and cry out to those who walk on
foot to make way. When on a journey, the rider
himself carries in his hand a little stick pointed
with iron, with which he pricks his beast on the
withers.
When the rider alights, he has no occasion to
tie up his ass. He merely pulls the rein of the
bridle tight, and passes it over a ring on the fore-
part of the saddle, which, confining the head of
the beast, is sufficient to make him remain pa-
tiently in his p!ac£.
Though