"We remarked among the horses and mares we saw of the Anazeh that we 

 had not seen a single one with an ewe, or a weak neck even, not excepting such as 

 were in low condition and quite lean; they had beautiful necks, and strong. Nor 

 did we see among the horses of the Anazeh — nor, I think, in other Bedouin tribes 

 — any horses which were cut-hammed; yet among horses passing under the name 

 of Arab are often seen cut-hammed animals. I believe that if the history of such 

 could be ascertained it would be found that they were not Arabians, nor bred in 

 Arabia, but that their dams were cut-hammed ponies or Galloways of a mixed or 

 alien breed, the sires probably having been Arabian. Nor do I remember to have seen 

 any horses or mares among the Bedouins of a black color, but in Syria and in the 

 Turkish districts we occasionally did see blacks, and generally these were said to 

 be Jelfon. I was struck, too, with another feature (I am not, however, prepared 

 to say it is absolutely a distinctive one, to be seen in every Arabian, but it was noticed 

 in so many instances that it looks something like it) — a line somewhat darker than 

 the general color of the animal, to be seen in colt foals, running in continuation 

 of the mane, along the spine, and to be traced for some way even among the long 

 hair of the tail. I never saw it in a fiUy— it seemed pecuUar to the male sex; it is 

 not obhterated with age ; it can be traced in old horses and in those of a very dark color. 

 It is totally different to the markings of the zebra, quagga, or of any of the hybrids, 

 or to the dark band to be seen down the back of certain dun-colored horses, often 

 accompanied by asinine stripes or markings ; it appears rather as the first or primitive 

 color of the animal, which tones away by almost imperceptible degrees from the 

 back to the belly; it may be seen in lines on the males of other wild animals. At 

 certain seasons and as the horse ages, and dependent also in some degree on his 

 condition, the dark color spreads over the shoulders and upper part of the body, 

 giving on the shoulders and the junction of the neck at the withers, and on the 

 upper part of the body and quarters, an appearance as if shaded with black, which 

 is most noticeable in horses of bay color. 



"The horses of the Anazeh stand over a great deal of ground, as also does the 

 desert-bred Arabian generally. We never saw one among the Anazeh which stood 

 with the fore legs inclined backward and much under the body — which stood over, 

 in other words — a thing, however, which is very often considered to be quite char- 

 acteristic of the Arab horse. They all have a free, long, striding walk, the hind 

 foot, I may say, invariably overstepping the place whence the fore foot on the 

 same side has just been raised many inches, from twelve to eighteen inches being 

 a quite common distance, and in some cases to an extent of two or even three 

 feet, and at times, I think, more. The longest stepping horse we saw was a two- 

 year-old colt — Seklawi Jedran ibn Nederi. Watching him walking hour after hour in 

 the desert, we estimated the distance he overstepped to be considerably beyond 

 three feet. 



"As to the color, I do not pretend to restrict it; but among the Anazeh, bay 

 appeared to us to be the most general, and I think is the favorite color among the 

 Arabs. Horses of a very rich dark bay, rather than a brown color, are not uncom- 

 mon; chestnuts and grays are less numerous, and together would not equal the 

 number of those of a bay color. But these colors were all distinct, marked and 

 good. The Arabs like a decided, or a clear, color. In other tribes of Bedouin the 

 color among the gray horses was much less decided; gray horses were more nu- 

 merous ; bay is thought not so general a color. In Turkish Arabia, which the Arabs 

 call Erack, gray horses appear to be so numerous that gray might be said to be 

 the usual color. 



"Grogginess, or knuckling over at the fetlock-joint, either before or behind, 

 we did not see among Anazeh horses; even those which showed signs of excessive 

 hard work were upright on their legs and sound in the feet. Scars, enlargements 

 from blows, and lesions, are often to be seen among the Anazeh horses, and the 



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