with the Keheilet Ajuz line, as one of the five. Let me repeat, moreover, that 

 some incline to the opinion — among them Djabery Zadah Mohammed Ali (Effendi) — 

 that all the families and strains given in the foregoing race are descended from 

 Keheilet Ajuz ; and I must state that Djabery Zadah Mohammed Ali, who published 

 in Arabia a short account of the Arabian horse, with a chart, gives a longer roll of 

 names than I have shown, some of which I have not included because I had great 

 doubt of their authenticity or correctness; so again I wish to observe that, although 

 I have heard that all the names I have shown are of 'Al-Khamseh,' I am not sure 

 whether several of them would not be discarded by the Anazeh. 



"I have even myself some doubts as to Jelfon and Homdani, not perhaps whether 

 they are in 'Al-Khamseh,' but as to the place they hold and how they are esteemed. ' 



"The distinguishing names of heads of families and strains are either those of 

 the original owners or of subsequent substitutes, or mark some peculiarity, and, in 

 some cases, events. Thus Homdani are the horses of a certain Homdan; Managhi 

 are the horses descended from the 'long-necked one.' 



"Although all in 'Al-Khamseh' are Keheilan (and may be possibly, or according 

 to some, Keheilan Ajuz), the generic term Keheilan is seldom added to the Hadban, 

 Managhi, Jelfon and Homdani families ; but Keheilan is almost always used as a prefix 

 to Ajuz — thus, 'Keheilet Ajuz' — and most generally to a great variety of her sub- 

 families. It cannot be taken as a proof that the other families are collateral with 

 Keheilet Ajuz and not descended from her, or for vindicating the authenticity of a 

 more recently established family, because secondary families undoubtedly Keheilet 

 Ajuz are generally mentioned by their specific names only. Thus Seklawi, al- 

 though of Keheilet Ajuz, has seldom the prefix of Keheilan ; nor has Abayan generally 

 nor Dahman abu Amr and others this prefix. Euphony may be a general guide 

 which is quite Semitic, although I have even heard Bedouins sometimes speak of 

 a horse or mare shortly as 'Ajaz.' But I think there is a kind of rule to place Ke- 

 heilan before such names as are those of simple strains, genuine, but such as have 

 not established any branches or divisions, and that when a family has established 

 itself by offshoots, Keheilan is dropped, except when emphasis or proof is required. 



"Although 'Al-Khamseh' is acknowledged in Arabia as the authentic record 

 of the Keheilan race, i. e., of the pure Arabian horses, whether there are other strains 

 of Kuhl or Arabian blood collateral with, but outside and not incorporate in 'Al- 

 Khamseh,' holding to some extent a similar relation to 'Al-Khamseh' as I think 

 that select class does to that more select portion possessed by the Anazeh race (or 

 perhaps sd, iy, msy, br, yo, yhr Keheilet Ajuz), is a question well worth considering. 



"I consider that such collateral blood of the Kuhl race, or the remains of it, may 

 and does probably exist in certain districts, and among certain communities of 

 Arabs, scattered about in neighboring localities." 



We give the following interesting comment by Lady Ann Blunt, of England, 

 descriptive of the Arabian horse as seen by her among the Bedouin tribes, in the 

 Desert of Arabia. Her Ladyship is not only among the most extensive breeders 

 of the Arabian horse in the world, but is likely the best posted lady on this sub- 

 ject in the civilized world. She has made a number of journeys into the very 

 heart of the Desert. We give the following from "The Bedouins of the 

 Euphrates," author Lady Ann Blunt, granddaughter of the literary genius Lord 

 Byron, a publication of 1879. 



"Today we have seen the most wonderful spectacle the desert has to show — the 

 Roala camp. We came upon it quite suddenly, as crossing a low ridge of rising 

 ground, we looked down over the plain of Saighal and saw it covered, as far as the 

 eye could reach, with a countless multitude of tents and men and mares and camels. 



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