Arabia and Some of the Bedouins 25 



books what they learned from original 

 sources of this interesting subject. 



Upton and the Blunts both made two 

 journeys to Arabia in the years between 

 1870 and 1880. In both of Upton's 

 journeys he had the company and as- 

 sistance of H. M. Consul General at Alep- 

 po, Mr. Skene. His wanderings were ex- 

 tended both in distance and in time. Hon. 

 Henry Chaplin, former Minister of Agri- 

 culture in Great Britain, breeder and 

 owner of the famous Derby winner Her- 

 mit, tells us that Upton went a thousand 

 miles into the desert south of Tadmur to 

 get the horses procured for him, and 

 he was gone two years. Both Chaplin 

 and the Weatherbys are sponsors for 

 the truth of every statement made by 

 Upton. 



After Upton went Mr. Wilfrid Scawen 

 Blunt and his wife, Lady Anne Blunt, a 

 granddaughter of Lord Byron. Their 

 first journey was in the winter of 1877-78, 

 three years after Upton, and they covered 

 much of the same ground as he, meeting 



