But when skilful riders mount these creatures, they appear as if transformed.

Lifting their small graceful heads with the fiery eyes, they throw out their slender feet with matchless swiftness, and bound away over stock and stone with a step so light and yet so secure that accidents very rarely occur.

It is quite a treat to see the Arabs exercise.

Those who escorted us good-naturedly went through several of their manoeuvres for our amusement.
From the valley of the Jordan to the "Sultan's Well," in the vale of Jericho, is a distance of about six miles.

The road winds, from the commencement of the valley, through a beautiful natural park of fig- trees and other fruit-trees.