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can assure my readers that it is not by 

 any means impossible to obtain a genuine 

 Arab mare. We visited the most ex- 

 clusive of all Badaween tribes and never 

 heard of such a law. If any law did 

 exist, it would be against selling, not 

 exporting; but we never heard of such a 

 thing in the desert. I can assure my 

 readers that among the genuine Badaween 

 of the Arabian desert we found no prej- 

 udice against parting with or selling a 

 mare. Difficulty there certainly is to 

 induce such people as the Anazah to sell 

 either horses or mares, for they do not 

 traffic in horses ; but if there be any dif- 

 ference, you might get a good mare with 

 less trouble than a good horse. 



''I have the best of possible authority 

 for refuting the statement that mares are 

 not to be got, for mares were not infre- 

 quently offered to us, and among the 

 Anazah (not the wandering people of 

 Erack) we obtained both mares and horses, 

 and the former without more difficulty 

 than the latter." 



The idea has also been given currency 

 that Manakhi Hedruj was a strain so 

 rare as to be seldom seen in these days, 



