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3 fadles m ^ lower part of the tree. The Persian saddle^ indeed, is
4 •ftcD' modi^ a tie^ like those of Hussars. People who cany pistolf
5 livre hokteiib and dMMe who do not) have two bags in place of.than^ .
6 fi)t fsanrying a spare horse shoe, or any other little thin^ they mnfe
7 Tliese tags have a large flap of embroidered cloth, and with common
8 horf?eTnen, of carjieting, whicli looks rery well. Tlie poor hare the
9 omnments T }i;n e described, made of tinned iron, instead of gold or
10 siK I T. riieri' are different kinds of stirrups ; the comniouest is like
11 our own, except that the ends of the arch are prolonged beyond the
12 bar on which the foot rests } another, not uncommon, has a flat plate
13 oS iron nine inches long, and four or five broad, for the foot to rest
14 on instead of a bar. Their housings are confined to one piece, which
15 reaches from the satldle ahuutit to the horse's tail, and hangs down a
16 good way on tiach side. Tlie coiiuaoji people have it of coaise
17 black cloth, wrought all over with worsted of different coluurs, or of
18 the skin of a leopard, or other wild beast, but the great have theui
19 o£ velvet,^ with the ridieat ainfaioideiy» and sometimes of «doth of
20 gold, ormflourited ivith jewels, and with pearl ficinge. Hie g^sat alaa
21 lava ike )Mnnmeb.of .^ieir saddles aet with jewels, end have aO tfacir
22 tnppinga adorned with gold aad pfccioiis stones, but .thb jbiob otaif
23 man of pomp: m ardioary times they aie very plain. ' Boraaa Ml
24 always led by mounted gnMmi% not by men on ibot as in Indiis end
25 wbm tlie matodismomits at a; 'strange houses 'the gneom mounls
26 hbhoiBOtiU he has finished his visits this they dunk geod lor tbv
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28 . WoiMnofl»ntrsivdinciM|jawas{tfae80ftoflianiper already
29 tkmed), « &w of die King*s 90 on'etophaiits, and others in a'hind<if
30 litter. .'/'
31 , Viog himself has been known to travel on an elephant, ani
32 more ftse^iently in a kind of litter, called in India a Nalkee^ wfaidi
33 is bonte on men's shoulders by pohte which pass beneath the bottonv
34 'fbiaU peoulieriD^e King, but some km of the nobles ane ^titled
35 tJp ride in a ocsnreyante called a Jaumpann, which b hke a «hort
36 hmkefii^ with. «■ evched top, jslwiig on three pole* (lifee whet ja.4ittM
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