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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE CAMP AND CAMP LIFE. I Have made a long digression. When I commenced it, I was sitting on a chest in the orderly-room, the other officers present having just heard that I was appointed to the force. I thanked Major W, who offered me a horse to ride up to the camp and an orderly to show me the way; our route lay first through the windmills I have spoken of; it looked dangerous to pass them on foot, it appeared insanity on horseback; the fans of the two between which our road lay, and they were more separated than any of the others, revolved, leaving a clear space of not more than six feet; if the horse shied at all or became frightened, the danger would be considerable. My guide, a tall Arab, mounted on a splendid horse, which by its lean head, large full eye, deep jowl, and small quivering ears, showed its claim to be a true son of the desert, did not look twice, but rode through quite unconcernedly, smoking his pipe as he did so; he never even turned round to see if I followed. I did not like, at this my first essay, to be outdone by him, and I advanced, endeavouring to calculate An Arab Soldier of the Bashi Bazouks. THE WINDMILLS. 25 with mathematical precision the exact middle line; the horse I bestrode, to my astonishment, took no more notice of the horrid fans than my guide or his steed had done, and we passed safely. I rode through them hundreds of times afterwards on many horses, and saw all the world there do the same; so true is it that habit is everything to both men and beasts, for I am sure, if you took a hundred horses out of an English hunting-field, you could not force ten of them within twenty, instead of three, feet of the revolving monsters. As I wended my way campwards, I had time to note the peculiar costume of my guide, w...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217651721
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 54
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217651720
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 113 gr


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