They Were Very Inquisitive, And
Examined My Hair And Skin With Great Attention, But Affected To
Consider Me As A Sort Of Inferior Being To Themselves, And Would
Knit Their Brows, And Seem To Shudder When They Looked At The
Whiteness Of My Skin.
The Moors are certainly very good horsemen.
They ride without fear-
-their saddles being high before and behind, afford them a very
secure seat; and if they chance to fall, the whole country is so
soft and sandy that they are very seldom hurt. Their greatest
pride, and one of their principal amusements, is to put the horse to
its full speed, and then stop him with a sudden jerk, so as
frequently to bring him down upon his haunches. Ali always rode
upon a milk-white horse, with its tail dyed red. He never walked,
unless when he went to say his prayers; and even in the night two or
three horses were always kept ready saddled at a little distance
from his own tent. The Moors set a very high value upon their
horses; for it is by their superior fleetness that they are enabled
to make so many predatory excursions into the negro countries. They
feed them three or four times a day, and generally give them a large
quantity of sweet milk in the evening, which the horses appear to
relish very much.
April 3. - This forenoon, a child, which had been some time sickly,
died in the next tent; and the mother and relations immediately
began the death-howl.
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