3rd. You ask for examples of the temperance of the Arab horse, and for proofs of his power of enduring hunger and thirst. Know that when we were established at the mouth of the Melouïa, we used to make razzias into the Djebel-Amour, following the route of the Sahara, and on the day of attack pushing forward at the gallop for five or six hours at a stretch—the entire expedition, going and returning, being completed in twenty to twenty-five days at the outside. During this space of time our horses had no barley except what they carried with them, about enough for eight ordinary feeds. Nor did they find straw, or anything except the _alfa_ and _shiehh_, and grass in the spring time. And yet, on rejoining our people, we performed the fantasia on our horses, and some among us burnt powder. Many, too, who were not fresh enough for the latter exercise, were quite able to go upon an expedition. Our horses would go a day or two without water, and once they found none for three days. The horses of the Sahara do far more than that, for they go three months without touching a grain of barley. Straw they meet with only when they go to the Tell to buy grain, and for the most part feed on the _alfa_, the _shiehh_, and sometimes the _guetof_. The _shiehh_ is better than the _alfa_, but not so good as the _guetof_. The Arabs say: The _alfa_ is good for marching, The _shiehh_ is good for fighting, And the _guetof_ is superior to barley. In certain years the horses of the Sahara have gone the whole twelve months without a grain of barley to eat, especially when the tribes have not been suffered to enter the Tell. At such times the Arabs give dates to their horses, which is a fattening food, and keeps them in condition for marching or fighting. 4th. You ask why, seeing the French do not mount their horses before they are four years old, the Arabs mount theirs at a very early age. Know that the Arabs say that horses, like men, are more easily taught when quite young. They have a proverb: The lessons of infancy are engraved upon stone, The lessons of ripe age pass away like birds' nests. They likewise say: The young branch is made straight without much trouble, But the old wood can never be straightened. In the very first year, the Arabs teach the colt to let itself be led by the _reseum_, a species of cavesson. They call it then _djeda_, and begin to fasten and bridle it. As soon as it has become _teni_, that is, as soon as it has entered on its second year, they ride it a mile or two, or even a parasang, and after it has completed eighteen months they do not fear to fatigue it. When it has become _rebâa telata_, that is, when it has entered on its third year, they tie it up, cease to ride it, cover it with a good _djellal_, and get it into condition. They say: