The Shasta courier., 1864-09-10

shall gralfy your h0yal niShness curl
osity to-morrow, then, said the Bey. speak
ing in Italian; there is a young officer in
my suite, one Mahomet Aga, who, | think,
viii tame the proud spirit of the Egyptian
'man-eater.' (The animal was called a
man-eater, by the English grooms, in con-
sequence of his having lacerated frightfully
one who had approached him without sufi-
cient caution. An arrangement was made
accordingly, and on the following day. Elf
Bey made his appearance in the Princes rid
ing-sehool, in Pail Mall, accompanied by
Mahomet Aga, who appeared to be man of
great agility and determination. The Prince
was there. ssatc-s-..s,,e3 by many noblemen
and gentlemen of his court, all anxious TO
witness the contest between a wild horse and
wild rider. and presently the savage Son of
the Desert was led into the arena by two
grooms, plunging and kicking furiously, and
only prevented from biting by close fitting
muzzle. lie had Mamlouk saddle upon his
back, placed there by the grooms not without
great difficulty, and so rampant was his con-
duet in general, that those present deemed it
impossible for any person to mount him. AS
he was led past the spot where Mahomet Aga
was standing, that agile Mussulman made
one spring st him, and was firmly seated in
make a mosement to prevent him. No sooner
did the hoESe feel this unaccustomed burden,
than he gafe way to the ferocity of his ma
ture tearifg and plunging about the arena
in every direction; but the Mamlouk kept
his seat, fifnly, throughout this proud dis
traction ofhrute passion, sitting with bis short
stirrups as easily as in chair and meeting
every motion of the horse with correspond
ing one. fdr the space of twenty minutes, to
the great Sstonishment of all the beholders
The anpafEtly ungovernable animal was by
this time rhduced to so tame and accomoda-
ting a STAG of submission. as to Weld entirely
to the control of his able rider, who was high
ly compliAented by the Prince upon his sue
cess, and was thenceforth the observed of
all observers, during his stay in London.
Among the Tartar hordes Of Asia, the wild
rider haurishes in all bis primitive freshness
There is a race call Uzbeck. who are rather
superior in most respects to the other Tartar
tribes by whom they are bordered The Uz-
beck would be nothing without his horse. in
whose society be passes the whole OF his life.
There is no pauper among the Uzbecks so
impoverished as not to possess at least one
horse. lie may have no tent; of stable he
may be utterly devoid but horse in some
shape or another is sure to be his An Uz-
beck beg1arman is indeed a strange sight to
the rambler from civilization He is no less
ragged than the beggarman of polished CON-
munities as to his garb he is not one whit
behind these industrial characters with regard
TO the Quantity and quality Of his yermin
but he ftntiniteiy superior to them in his
style OF thendie,rncy for lseigallops up TO you
en- horseback and beseee6s you ior aims as
a ahighwayman demandsyour purse Near
to the UEbeck rambles chat ugly little savage
called the Calmuck Tartar He, too, lives
chiefly on horseback. and to great extent
on horseResh-that with mares milk. form
Ing the staple of his food. When at loss
Tor fuel, his mode of cooking a sirloin steak
Of horsemeat is peculiar, if not nice. He
cuts it in large, thin slice, places it upon
his horses back. and, having strapped on the
saddle over it, mounts and rides as hard as
be can so for twenty miles or so, about which
distance it takes to cook his dinner accor-
ding to bis taste. a horse steak. cooked upon
horseback, under the saddle-what dinner
for wild rider.
The great steppes. Or undulating plains
bordering upon the northeastern shores of
the Caspian Sea, are reamed also by pecu-
liar race of wild riders known as the Khirgiz-
kazaks. These plains are varied by FORESTS
of a large shrub called the sax owl. in which
many wild animals find refuge The shores
OF the lakes and estuarles are covered with
gigantic reeds, towering to a height of more
than thirty feet, and among these the tiger
has his lair, and wild boars of great size and
feroeity wander. These animals, with other
smaller game such as the roebuck. are pur-
sued On horseback by the Khirgiz- kaz. and
killed with the lance or with bows and ar
rows. Any smaller game than the roebuck
Is looked upon by those people with great
contempt. French traveller relates that,
thinking to amuse 6ne Of the chiefs, whose
hospitality he was enjoying, he related to him
through his interpreter, how hares are hunt
ed in Europe, giving a description of that
sport. The Khirgiz- Kazak listened to him
with an i'll concealed smile of derision, and.
when he had finished, asking him to walk
out into the saxowl thicket, there showed
him how the hares of that country are tanner,
even, than our domestic rabbits; allowing
themselves to be taken by hand.
But the prince of all the wild riders, per-
haps. is the Cossack of the Don. Tall and
1.-THE, with his dropping mcustache. and fea-
lures displaying but little Of the Tartar mould
there is a soldierly dignity about this natural
dragoon that certainly entities him to dis
tinction. He is frequently thief, it is true,
and he prefers train-oil to almost any other
tap (brandy, perhaps, excepted), but he is
clean in his person-which, among Russo
Asiatic tribes must be reckoned as an excep-
tional virtue-and his round barrelled eve
neeked horse. Of small size, but great swift
ness and endurance, is his especial pride.
And yet. if this wild horseman is a thief, as
is generally stated, he has his punishment
for theft, and a very queer and peculiar PEN
atty it is The culprit is tied to a post in
some public part of the town, while by his
side are deposited bottle of brandy, loaf
of bread, and number of good, stout sticks.
Everybody who passes has the privilege of
administering TO the culprit as many blows
as he thinks proper with one of these sticks,
after which it is optional with him to treat
him to dram from the bottle and q cut from
the loaf. How would it do to introduce this
punishment into our highly civilized COM
munities? Alas we do not think it would
answer. So great is the love of liquor among
US, that many tolerably honest men would
become thieves, we are afraid, and risk the
beating for the sake of the brandy.
II you wish to make fool of man, first
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