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APPENDIX. 



•accefs to the mares : this is never done but in the 

 prefence of a vvitnefs, the fecretary of the Emr, 

 or fome public officer ; he after ts the facl, records 

 the name of the horfe, mare, and whole pedigree 

 of each, and thefe atteftations* are carefully pre- 

 ferve'd, for on thefe depend the future price of the 



foal. 



The 



* The reader is here prefented with an original atten- 

 tion, fome of which M. D'Jrvieux fays have been preferred 

 for above 500 years in the public records. 



Taken before A BDORR AM AN, KADI 

 of ACCA. 



The Occafion of this prefent Writing or Initrument is that 

 at Ace a in the Houfe cf Badi legal eftabiifh'd Judge, appear'd 

 in Court Thomas UsgOte the Engliih Conful and with him 

 Sheikh Morad Ebn al Hajj Abdollah, Sheikh of the County 

 of Safad, and the faid Conful defir'd from the aforefaid 

 Sheikh proof of the Race of the Grey Horfe which he bought 

 of him, and He afrirm'd to be Monaki Shadiihi *, but he was 

 not fatisfied with this but defir'd the Teftimony of the 

 Arabs, who bred the Horfe and knew how he came to Sheikh 

 Morad ; whereupon there appear'd certain Arabs of Repute 

 whofe names are undermention'd, who terrified and declar'd 

 that the Grey Horfe which the Conful formerly bought of 

 Sheikh Morad, is Monaki Shaduki of the pure Race of Horfes, 

 purer than Milkf, and that the Beginning of the Affair 



* Thefe are the Names of the two Breeds of Arab Horfes, which are reckoned 

 pure and true, and thofe which are of both thefe Brads by Father and Mother, 



the aofi Hoble and free from Bafia'dy, 

 ■f A Proverbial ExpreJJicr;. 



was, 



are 



