64 The Arab Horse 



ed his murdered cousin Suleiman Ibn 

 Mirshid, Upton's friend, as supreme 

 Sheik of the Gomussa. She was bred 

 by Erheyen Ibn AHan of the Gomussa 

 tribe, was an Abeyeh Sherrakieh, and 

 was sold by her breeder, on shares, to 

 Beteyen. At the time of their visit the 

 Blunts sought by every means to buy 

 the filly, and the account of their efforts 

 as told in *'The Bedouin Tribes of the 

 Euphrates" is highly interesting. The 

 mare is thus described by Lady Blunt: 



''But our chief delight was to follow, 

 when Beteyen Ibn Mirshid, Sheyk of 

 the Gomussa, rode up to Mohammed 

 Dukhi's tent to pay a visit. He had just 

 purchased from one of his people the 

 'bridle half of a three year old mare, an 

 Abeyeh Sherrak, and was riding her 

 home when he heard we were at Mo- 

 hammed Dukhi's tent. The mare is so 

 much more remarkable than the man 

 that I must describe her first. She is a 

 dark bay standing fifteen hands or over. 

 Her head, the first point an Arab looks 

 to, is a good one, though I have seen 



