138 THE BREEDS OF LIVE-STOCK 



Arabs, although roan and yellow are common among 

 Barbs. The bays often have black points, and generally 

 one or more white feet, with some white in the face. The 

 chestnuts vary from the brightest to the dullest shades 

 (Fig. 21). 



159. Types and families. It has been asserted that 

 there were two breeds of Arabian horses, a large breed and 

 a small breed. This is untrue; there is but one general 

 breed of Arabian horses, of which there are many families, 

 which are different and distinct in many ways. While 

 there are not two distinct breeds, there are a first and a 

 second class. A horse, or mare, about whose breeding 

 there is the slightest doubt, is disqualified, and not called 

 " chubby," and therefore is of the second class. The 

 families originated and descended from some great mare. 

 In all cases the breed of the colt is that of the dam, and not 

 of the sire ; thus, a colt, whose father had been a Hamdani 

 Simri, and whose dam had been a Seglawieh Jedranieh, 

 would necessarily be a Seglawi Jedran. The Bedouins 

 count the father little, so long as he is "chubby," meaning 

 a pure-bred that the Anazeh would breed from, but they 

 place everything in the value of the mother's blood, and 

 of her own individuality. 



The Gomussa, of the Sabba Anazeh, are the shrewdest 

 horse-breeders of the desert. They have retained, in the 

 largest numbers, specimens of the five great families, 

 which are called the Khamseh, which means five. They 

 also have the choicest of the other families, which are 

 rated equal in point of blood. The Khamseh, so the story 

 runs, have descended from the five great mares, which, 

 with other mares of Sheik Salaman, were drinking at the 

 river after long hardships in war, when the trumpet blew, 

 calling them back to battle. Only five responded to the 



