"Isaac I — Ishmael. 



"Jacob 2 — Kidar. 



"Judah 3 — Hamal. 



"Pharez 4 — Ifabet. 



"Hezron (about 1635 B. C.) 5 — Salaman (owners of the five Keheilets). 



"Ram 6 — Alhamaisa. 



"Amminadab 7 — Alyasa. 



"Nahshon 8— Odad. 



"Salmon 9 — Oddo. 



"Boaz 10 — Adnan. 



"Obed 1 1 — Maad. 



"Jesse 12 — Nazar. 



"David 13 — Rabiah (on whom were entailed the 



horses of his ancestors.) 

 14 — Solomon (B. C. 1033). 



"So that more than a thousand years before Christ history not only records 

 that horses were in Arabia, but specifies a certain class — the horses of Rabiah's ances- 

 tors ; and Salaman, the direct ancestor of Rabiah, whose five Arabian mares founded 

 the select family of 'Al-Khamseh,' was of the same number of descents from the 

 patriarch Abraham as Hezron, the grandson of Judah, who flotu-ished about the 

 year 1635 B. C, so that an authentic family of horses has been preserved in Arabia 

 for 3,500 years. 



"Thus written history informs us that a thousand years before the Christian 

 era horses were allotted to and entailed upon a certain family. The Arab account 

 states that a special breed, or family, was established by the selection of five mares 

 which belonged to Salaman, the ancestor of the family, to whom later an allotment 

 was made — determined by history to have been some six centuries before — and 

 tradition says that upon Ismail, who was the direct ancestor of Salaman, the owner 

 of 'The Five Mares,' lamenting over his barren heritage, the desert of Arabia, he 

 was reassured and consoled by the announcement that the most valued gift to man 

 had been reserved for him, which he subsequently discovered in the horse of the 

 Kuhl race, upon his arrival at Hejaz. 



"Besides 'Al-Khamseh' being the select family by which the Kuhl race has 

 been preserved and authentically handed down, I think there is a select family of 

 'Al-Khamseh,' which is that possessed by the Anazeh ; for with regard to the horses 

 which were entailed upon Rabiah al-Faras, considering the number of descents 

 between Salaman and Rabiah al-Faras, it is probable the special allotment did 

 not consist of the whole race or breed descended from Salaman's Five Mares, but 

 of such only as had come down from Salaman to Rabiah through ancestors in direct 

 descent from father to son, or, if such be not intended, that possibly some further 

 selection was deemed advisable, and made probably by public consent. These 

 were probably entailed upon Rabiah al-Faras to secure within certain bounds the 

 blood of the five Keheilets, which had probably in the course of some generations 

 become dispersed among many kindred families of Arabs from Adnan, This would 

 show, it is true, two divisions in the select family of 'Al-Khamseh,' which divisions 

 or classes I believe, however, to exist — first, the general family of 'Al-Khamseh,' 

 which is to be found among most Bedouin tribes and tolerably freely dispersed 

 throughout Arabia ; secondly, a more precise or select class among the Anazeh race. 



"The text of history — 'Rabiah, sumamed al-Faras ("of the horses"), because 

 he obtained the horses from his ancestors by hereditary law' — not only points back- 

 ward to 'Al-Khamseh,' formed from the five mares of his ancestor Salaman, but, 

 I think, indicates something more definite than a general consignment of the whole 

 race of 'Al-Khamseh,' increased during an interval of some five or six centuries. 



