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rode beside the leaders, but we must
have admired it of its picturesqueness
as it may have added a note of contrast. The
old man who had become accustomed to
glasses several times offered us some from a tiny store bottle as usual and surprised that we did not care for it.
Stuff seems to be in minimal use by
the Moors and was offered to us as soon as we came into the courtyard night.
All the afternoon we continued along the river valley sometimes skirting the hills water's edge and at others coming its hills to avoid a precipitous slope. The plain hills were covered with hay grass and I had never seen a fully grazing country.
Shortly after lunch we struck a bit of bad trail and the white horses cart got mired in a mudhole. The white driver quit to repair it pull at all, a horse that hour before a Moors with five horses had joined us and rode along beside it to earth. When we could not move the white horse, the Moors offered to lend us as small boy how to pull out the load. The husband up the little horse and he gathered the cart out of its hole entirely shape. We then continued ahead of the