ARAB HORSES. 



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Arab. Burckhardt (Notes on the Bedouins and Wahahys) 

 states that horses do not thrive in Yemen, which is a country 

 to the north of Aden. A considerable proportion of the 

 horses which are imported (chiefly to India) under the title 

 of Arabs, come from the districts adjoining the Euphrates 

 and Tigris (Al Jazira, Irak, etc.) ; but few of these Turkish 

 Arabians can claim to be Sons of the Desert, owing to the 

 large admixture of foreign (principally Turkish and Persian) 





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Photo 62/] [J. cowELL, Simla. 



Fig- 593.— The Maharajah of Patiala's Arab pony, Blitz (13. i). 



blood,' none of which, General Tweedie tells us, comes 

 from England. 



According to General Tweedie and Major Upton, no 

 wild horses are found in Arabia. " In the Old Testament, 

 the Arabs Jare never mentioned as riding anything but 

 camels and asses. Though the author of Job knew of 

 the war horse. Job did not own a single horse, his equine 

 possessions consisting of 500 she asses. Herodotus (vii. 



