text:  Sportive flocks of sheep--their fleeces speckled with rose-colour; buffaloes wallowing in the mud of the fountains or for hours together lazily butting each other with their horns; here and there on the mountains noble steeds which moved (their manes floating on the breeze) with a haughty trot along the hills--such is the frame that encloses the picture of every Mussulman village