. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. Bedouin Spur [mih-maz). all that is wanted for such simple riding. Asstated in the text, we have usually found a horse thatis accustomed to the Arab halter march better, at allpaces, when nothing is put in his mouth to excludethe fresh air, and keep him in a state of fret andirritation. If an Arab, he is pretty sure to trip andblunder, but he will not fall. The Arabic word
. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. Bedouin Spur [mih-maz). all that is wanted for such simple riding. Asstated in the text, we have usually found a horse thatis accustomed to the Arab halter march better, at allpaces, when nothing is put in his mouth to excludethe fresh air, and keep him in a state of fret andirritation. If an Arab, he is pretty sure to trip andblunder, but he will not fall. The Arabic word for the bruising or galling of abeasts back is daus—primary meaning, trampling,esp. corn to thrash it. And the same word was once , douse the glim current in the British Islands-= put out the lig/it, in chap. iii. of Guy in Blind Harrys History of Sir WilliamWallace:— Two supple fellows there that pressed him most,He doused their doublets rarely to their cost. Douse or douche; drub (Semitic drb); and manyother words of the same pithy class, may have beencarried our way by the gipsies. CHAP. III. OF THE BEDOUIN AS HORSE-BREEDERS. 143 Elsewhere we let an Abrabian poet describe a thunderstorm ;
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