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"What is there in the mind of Monsieur which makes him ride as if he fled from an enemy?" "I know not, but he goes like a hare before the sloughi, Batouch-ben Brahim," answered Ali, gravely. Then they sent their horses on in chase of the cloud of sand towards the southwest. About four in the afternoon they reached the camp at Mogar.
And they brought with them that wonderful air which belongs only to them the air that dwells among the dunes in the solitary places, that is like the cool touch of Liberty upon the face of a man, that makes the brown child of the nomad as lithe, tireless, and fierce-spirited as a young panther, and sets flame in the eyes of the Arab horse, and gives speed of the wind to the Sloughi.
Yet, as far as is known, the famous fourteenth-century bronze chandelier of Tetuan, and the fine old ritual furniture reported to be contained in certain mosques, are the only important works of art in Morocco later in date than the Roman sloughi of Volubilis.
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