154 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



Mr. W. P. Hogg, an American gentleman, in his 

 book 'The Land of the Arabian Nights,' after 

 several casual and cursory remarks as to ' handsome 

 Arab horses,' ' a mettled Arab,' ' a beautiful full-blood 

 Arab horse,' and their ' wonderful endurance,' and so 

 on, describes his inspection of the stables of the 

 Pasha at Babylon, where there were a score of the 

 finest Arab horses, and naively says that, although 

 he is not especially a horse-fancier, he would fully 

 appreciate the present were the Pasha to give him 

 one of those beautiful animals, so intelligent, docile, 

 and graceful in every motion. Everybody seems 

 to notice their beauty. 



The Hon. F. Walpole, in his book ' The Ansayrii,' 

 writes of an Arab mare he was shown of the Anazeh : 

 ' She was worthy of the pen of a Warburton or a 

 Lamartine : clean gray, with black mane and tail, 

 silvered at the end ; her skin thin as a kid glove, 

 and the long hair as fine as that which drops over 

 the shoulders of beauty. The eye was bright, wild, 

 and flashing ; the nostrils full, almost bell-shaped ; 

 tall and strong, yet light and active, she well deserved 

 her name — The Beautiful.' 



In ' Modern Persia,' C. J. Wills, M.D., describes a 

 fourteen-hand pure-bred Arab which he bought, with 

 a huge scar of a spear-wound a foot long on his 

 shoulder, otherwise perfect, of angelic temper, but 

 small by the side of the Persian horses, as all pure 

 Arabs are ; his muzzle almost touched his chest as 

 he arched his neck, and his action was very high yet 



