New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-19
MR.. RAREY IN TIE EAST.

After tour of observation among the Arabs, extend
ing over more than three months, the king OF horse
tanners has returned shores for his ast session.
Several very advantageous offers were made TO him to
lecture in the French provinces but he had to decline
them ALL aid after four exhibitions in Paris he pushed
ON to Rome and Naples and 80 by Sicily and Malta, to
Alexandria Beyond the Roman habit Of not shoeing
the hind feet of their horses his note book up TO that
point had received very few entries; but he found
himself among more congenia scenes as he sailed up
the Nile toward Cairo in the second week of February.
Il was iust the season for turning out the Arab horses
N orass and there they stood up TO their knees in it
with an ever-shifting background Of cames donkeys,
and butaoes on whose back three or four dusky ur-
chns might be seen riding home at nlghall mile after
mile in 6ay chestnut and hea-btten grey platoons,
about five yards apart and tehered to stakes by
fore and both hind legs just to command their al
lotted range Of hertage At Cairo his stay was very
the Viceroy of Egypt to visit him at his country seat,
higher up the river but to gaze on the high-caste
children Of the star his sole mission, and he had
no time to liugcr. He accordingly went on at once
with his party across the Great Desert the shores of
the Red Sea; and taking leave of them there merely
stepped aside to the pyramids AZ he retraced his
steps to Alexandra.
fence he sailed to q port near Jaffa, and reached
"the Eternal City," and it was on picturesque,
graesy knoll hard by grove OF olives, that he gave
the Pasta a specimen of his art. His Highness had
ordered for his inspection four of his best mares OF
the purest Nedgedee caste, and after he had ridden
one, a grey (whose antics would have quite qualified
her for daRseHse among the sawdust on " the Surrey
side") he took brown horse from the hands Of the
attendant eunuch, and with the aid of the 1.-TWO little
straps" made him follow him every where about the
pasture. The grey mare whose ragged hips and long
neck did not improve her, little over fifteen
hands, and highly valued by her master that he had
refused thousand pounds for her.
Then followed an excursion to the Dead Sea, which
rkatut h.y nf Tho do
scended the tent and cooking utensils and showed
their disgust at the absence OF nobler plumber by max
ing the cook stand aud deliver his watch, and mareat-
ing the solitary soldier for turning saucy in his
strance. Mr.. Rarey and his party were miles
ahead at the time, but the former proted by the les
son and left everything behind in Damascus, down TO
Lis very keys, when, merely accompanied by Major
Frazer of lion-huntng fame, and an interpreter he
spen several days in tie desert III search of horse lore
riding ~ to each encampment he could descry, and
trusting for food and nights lodging to the sieks of
the village.
At BeYrout, on his return he found the best Arab
he had seen on his travels among lot OF twenty,
which some Sandman officers had got together on
rowing commission from their king. Rhodes and
Smyrna had little TO show in this way; but at Con-
stantinople there were several studs Including that of
the renowned Omer Pasha), principally sadde-horses,
and nowhere did Mr.. Rarey find the horse better
derstood more scientifically handled. The Arabs
seemed to fall far short i'll the latter point of what he
bad anticipated Their habit of sharing their tents
given them perfect mastery over generation after
generation OF horses they arise; but their critic
strongly tempted TO doubt whether they have thought
out any system, or could grappe on any fixed prin-
ciple with horse that was TO them lie
confirmed this point by the utter helpessness
and fright they exhibited when the little entire horse
on which he made his last desert tour became up
roarous one morning, and refused to let one OF them
put Lis bride on. The Prophet was invoked in
vain that time and there nothing for but TO send
messenger for Mr.. Rarey to the tent OF the
sheik, and request him 10 leave his repast of brown
bread and wild honey forthwith, and come and put
matters 10 rights, point of great difficulty when
the crowd OF agitaed turbans could be thrust back
space. He alsO thought their mode of putting shoes
very nartistic; but the shoes themselves seemed to
conform with exactness to the structure OF the
feet.
Both his views on this point and his general expert
Of desert life will lend not little novelty to the
lectures which he purposes giving before he returns
home 10 Ohio next Fail. We have had A" original"
" female" Irish" and =" Mexican horse-taners in
tie field since fashion first in this direction but still
Mr. Rarey holds that vantage ground which tho finest
hOrsemen in the world have long since accorded 10
him. both for facing savage or gentlng" nervous
subject into confidence. Ii il idle to the last degree 10
expect that horses will not lapse after they have re-
ceived one lesson from him. Clever he may be- he
cannot checkrate nature by working II mira lie. The
most that he do liz TO Indicate the mode If treat
ment, and show how completely il works the desired
effect in his own hands; but il is only by constant
ard Patient repetition OF il las III the cavalry regiments,
" here the most ncorrigibe subjects have been made
permanently useful by it that horse be taught to
shed ih old vicious habits and cease be- pest both
and out Of the stable. - London Illus. News.
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From Washington.
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