46 The Arab Horse 



Keheilet Ajuz, she being descended from 

 one of the original Al Khamseh. Others 

 beUeve that the hne of Keheilet Ajuz, 

 with her sub-families, and numerous 

 single strains, is collateral with the other 

 four Keheilets of Al Khamseh, and that 

 all the families are not descended from 

 Keheilet Ajuz. There seems testimony 

 both ways. 



Again some think the second family 

 named as descended from Keheilet Ajuz, 

 namely the Abeyan (Aba — a cloak — so 

 named because they carry their tails so 

 high that a sheyk once casting away his 

 cloak in flight, it was caught on his mare's 

 tail and carried along with him) with its 

 seven sub-families, should not be con- 

 sidered by itself, though it is very choice 

 (asil), but is really a part of the family of 

 Seklawi Jedran. 



The names of these last show how the 

 sub-families come about. A man named 

 Jedran had three mares, full sisters, of the 

 Seklawi family. One he kept himself, 

 so she was known as Seklawi Jedran. 



