CHAPTER IV 



How Some Arab Horses Have Been 

 Obtained 



A S ALREADY noted, the journeys 

 -^ ^ and subsequent writings of the 

 Blunts and Major Upton have done 

 much to enlighten the world at 

 large concerning Arab history and the 

 breeding methods of the Bedouins. 

 Through their agency, also, came to 

 England many pure Arabs, indeed nearly 

 all the pure bred mares that were acquired 

 from the desert by reason of the civil 

 wars in Arabia just preceding and fol- 

 lowing the Russo-Turkish conflict of the 

 late seventies. One other channel only 

 through which mares were obtained was 

 the purchases and breedings of Abbas 

 Pasha, Khedive of Egypt. He realised 

 the value of pure Arab blood in horses, 

 and spent money like water in getting the 



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