The Cotton Factory Times. — 1886-12-17 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

IIIE A6AB LUJILSE ANL, DUNIZEY.  The Arab looks very well on horseback, thengh he might not altogether suit the tastes of the shires. His saddle is generally red, peaked before and behind, and placed upon several coloured felt saddle cloths ; the stirrup broadens out so as to give is wide space for the toot to rest on; it is pointed at the corners, thereby euabling the rider to tear the horse's ribs even without the aid of a pointed stick or steel spear-like spur which he often pushes in between his slipper and the stirrup side. The Arab soldier, with his white burnous fluttering behind him, his high red saddle and saddle cloths, his lowiee high and body bent forward, with his long silver-mounted gun flourielliug in the air, looks, as he gallops forward in a cloud of dust, the very embodiment of the picturesque, exultant war spirit of past ages, nut sobered down by bcieutitio formulas for murder, but free to carry out his own bloodthirsty purposes with as much swagger and ostentation as possible. As a horseman, I believe the Arab to have all excellent seat, but mu execrable hand; he loves to keep his beast's head high in the air, and so he ceaselessly joggles at the but, upon which he always rides, until one wonders how the wretched brute Calu itt his feet safely down; yet he does somehow. one rSdes camels in this country, but the Sultan is said to have some very fleet dromedaries capable of doing marvellous journeys; and of course, in those parts of Morocco which merge into the Sahara, the [camel is indispensable. The Barbary donkey is a short-legged, loug-eutiering, indispensable beast. It is easy to comprehend the ass existing without Tangier, but it is impossible to conceive Tangier existing without the ass; his patient little body bears every possible burden, from the foreign T. I ister's wife, fur example, who site upon the pacs vitli great dignity, and, preceded by her Moorish Soldier pays calls upon other ministers' wives, to the latest thing in iron bedsteads to be sold in the public market. As an outlet for cruelty alone, the ass is very valuable to the Moor; he is expressly enjoined to be kind to the horse, and assured that it will be accounted to him later on, so the horse has a comparatively good time of it, and we have all heard a good deal about the Arab's love for his horse ; but the poor little donkey, the horse's remote anoestor, has so Divine consideration extended towards him that 1 know of, at least, if he has, it must be in some future state, for his earthly pilgrimage is a very sorry affair—he is battered and beaten and prodded, overloaded, and underfed, until his poor old hide seems verily often to have too many holes in it to be able to hola his bones. I have seen an Arab go gravely to a great aloe hedge, and, choosing one or those terrible thorn-pointed leaves, drag it off with intent to quicken the paces ci his poor little beast; nor would it be possible ,even if your vocabulary permitted, to convince him that he wait cruel. I have heard those who were more competent to judge deny that the Arab is cruel, and assert that he is very kind and gentle, and that what appears to be Cruelty is in reality merely an insensibility to the pain suffered around him, arising from a life iii which pain tills so large a share. This may be so, but the result seems much the same, although it is only fair to say that, te:rible as his punisqments are in their barbarity—too terrible to be recounted here— yet, as far as I could see, the Arab does not derive pleasure from the infliction of pain. Unlike the Spaniard, his amusements do not necessitate blood to give the flavour.—Shreds of Morocco," in the Corithill Magazine for September.