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breed, and to avoid the spurious crosses of the bordering countries, and-. 

 the person employed being a real judge, a point of the first conse- 

 quence, the finest and most appropriate forms, as well as the highest, 

 blood, might be so procured. 



Hereafter follows an Arabian pedigree, which was hung about the 

 neck of the Horse. Various old pedigrees of Arabians are in print ; 

 this is probably the latest, the Horse being brought from Egypt with 

 our troops, a few years since, by Colonel Ainsley : — 



" In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate, and of Seed 

 Mahommed, Agent of the High God, and of the Companions of Ma- 

 hommed and of Jerusalem. Praised be the Lord, the Omnipotent 

 Creator. This is a high-bred Horse, and its colfs-tooth is here in a 

 bag, hung about his neck, with his pedigree, and of undoubted autho- 

 rity, such as no infidel can refuse to believe. He is the son of Rab- 

 hamy, out of the dam Lahahdadah, and equal in poMcr to his sire, of the 

 tribe of Zazahalah ; he is finely moulded, and made for running like an 

 ostrich, and great in his stroke and his cover. In the honours of rela- 

 tionship, he reckons Zalicah, sire of Mahat, sire of Kellac, and the unique 

 y\lket, sire of Manassch, sire of Alsheh, father of the race down to the 

 famous Horse, the sire of Lahalala; and to him be ever abundance of 

 ^reen meat, and corn, and water of life, as a reward from the tribe of 

 Zazahalah, for the fire of his cover ; and may a thousand branches 

 shade his carcase from the hyena of the tomb, from the howling wolf 

 of the desert, and let the tribe of Zazhalah present him with a festival 

 within an inclosure of walls ; and let thousands assemble at the rising 

 of the sun, in troops hastily, where the tribe holds up under a canopy of 

 oelestial signs, within the -walls, the saddle with the name and family of 

 the possessor. Then let them strike their hands, with a noise, incessant^ 

 ly, and pray to God for immunit\% for the tribe of Zoab, the inspired 

 tribe." 



This Arabian pedigree is, at all points, satisfactory in regard to form, and 

 the indubitable certificate ofa true-bred Horse; the only question is, how 

 far we may depend upon the Tom o' Nokes, or John o' Styles, who offers 

 his Horse for sale, in an eastern market, because, notwithstanding the flat- 

 tering accounts which have been published, it is sufficiently well known, 



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