that he must be either a snow-white or spotted circus nag, of common blood and 

 form. The truth is so far from that, we are told by the various writers who have 

 visited the horse breeding tribes of the Arabian Desert, that about fifty per cent, 

 are beautiful bays, about twenty per cent, are chestnuts, and the remaining 

 thirty per cent, are greys, with only an occasional brown and very rarely a black. 



In spite of all slander and misrepresentation that has been heaped upon the 

 splendid shoulders of the Arab horse, he is still spotless morally and physically; 

 for he is a great weight carrier; and his good blood will enable him to outlive 

 even the inseparable twin brothers, ignorance and prejudice. 



A gentleman who has just visited the Bedouin tribes of Arabia informs me 

 that he was advised in such a way as to thoroughly believe it, that there are not 

 to exceed about six hundred stallions and mares, young and old, all told, of the 

 very highest caste, in the entire desert, among all of the tribes combined. We 

 glean from various writers that there are in the neighborhood of about one 

 hundred thousand tents among all of the Bedouin tribes ; allowing four persons 

 to a tent, we have about four hundred thousand Bedouins ; and only about six 

 hundred of the highest rank of horses ; for we learn that there are many Arabian 

 horses there which the Anazeh tribes do not consider as worthy to reproduce from. 

 Hence it is plain to be seen that the choicest specimens are hard to procure and 

 necessarily very expensive. The French government offered Rev. F. F. Vidal, of 

 England, twenty thousand dollars for the renowned desert-bred Arabian stallion 

 Kismet (grandsire of Khaled and Clay Kismet), but did not succeed in the pur- 

 chase of him. Mr. Huntington afterwards leased and imported him as fully de- 

 scribed further on in this pamphlet. 



We are further informed by those who have visited the Arabian tribes of 

 the desert lately that there is seldom a time when there is not a representative 

 there from either Russia, Germany, Austria, France, Italy or Spain who often 

 only secure one or two specimens after many months of travel and hardships. 



It is for many reasons impossible to buy all Arabians that one might see and 

 desire; one common circumstance is that a fine animal may be owned by six or 

 eight Bedouins jointly; then, too, it is often the case that such correct horse breed- 

 ing tribes as the Anazeh are not in position to be able to spare the breeding qual- 

 ities of certain animals. In such cases purchase is impossible. 



The review of England's past horse breeding history which is contained in 

 these pages is not given with any belief that it is at all new to well-posted students 

 of horse breeding affairs. I believe it is a history, however, that should not be 

 forgotten by anyone who may wish to excel in horse breeding, for it contains so 

 much valuable experience and such an endless amount of good lessons and dem- 

 onstrations in favor of the two great desert breeds, which have ever proven to 

 be the very quintessence of all that is great and prepotent in the horse kingdom. 

 I also hope I may be pardoned for extensive quotation, for I desire that those who 

 read this pamphlet shall know how the Arabian horse is regarded by most-eminent 

 authorities — those who have devoted endless time, pains, labor and research in 

 mastering this deep and interesting subject ; for is it not true that a perfect knowl- 

 edge of the past is essential to a better understanding of the future? The shadows 



