86 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



scribers, there were advertised to stand to cover 

 Matchem, Eclipse and Herod, and ten other stallions 

 described as Arabians — viz., the Khalan Arabian, 

 two Arabians from the province of Yemen in Arabia 

 Felix, Sir Charles Sedley's Arabian, the Damascus 

 Arabian, the Arabian horse Dowla — from the moun- 

 tains of Moses in Arabia — the Tilfy Arabian, 

 the brown Arabian Lahara, and the chestnut 

 Arabian. Ten Arab stallions publicly advertised 

 engaged at one time in building up the thorough- 

 bred so lately as 1770! Probably there were many 

 more. 



According to the reckoning of Major Upton (who 

 wrote another book when Captain), quoted by Mr. 

 Speed in the Century, September, 1903, there were 

 used in the formation of the English stud from the 

 time of James I. to the beginning of the tenth century 

 201 Eastern horses — viz., loi Arab stallions, 7 Arab 

 mares, 42 Barb stallions, 24 Barb mares, i Egyptian 

 stallion, 8 Persian stallions, 28 Turkish stallions, and 

 2 foreign stallions — all Eastern horses — and these 

 horses worked on a breed improved by the Roman 

 horses under Julius Csesar, by the Arabs of the 

 Crusaders, by the jennets of the Armada, and by 

 very many lesser importations. 



Mr. Speed says that in America, though the 

 popular mind classed all the above as Arabs, they 

 were not so, because the real Arabs were much 

 purer in blood than the others, though the Barbs 

 had virtues by no means to be despised. 



