How Some Arabs Have Been Obtained 67 



of the coveted family of Ras elFedawi, to 

 which belonged the famous Darley Ara- 

 bian. It has often been stated that he 

 was a Manekhi Hedruj, Both Major 

 Upton and Lady Anne Blunt say he was 

 Ras el Fedawi. This is one of the sub- 

 families of Keheilet Ajuz, and the nearest 

 Major Upton was able to secure was the 

 bay mare Kesia, a Keheilet of Nowak, 

 closely akin to the Ras el Fedawi. Upton 

 says (Gleanings page 324): "Of the 

 strain called Ras el Fedawi, of which 

 family I understand was the Darley 

 Arabian, we saw some mares in another 

 tribe and in the hands of single Arabs, 

 but I do not remember to have seen any 

 in the Sabaah." The only one he could 

 buy was so badly broken down that he 

 would not take her. 



Wild Thyme was bred to Kars, a bay 

 Seglawi Jedran horse of the Ibn Sbeni 

 strain, purchased at Aleppo by Mr. Blunt, 

 and considered of very choice blood. 

 Lady Anne Blunt ranks him as one of the 

 most valuable horses they secured. The 



