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sion to travel into any parts of the deserts, and 

 to take his choice of all the most esteemed horses 

 there, but even obtained the favour of purchasing 

 Bell's Arabian out of Beny Suckr's own stud, 

 with an undoubted assurance and testimonial, 

 signed by all the principal officers and chief men 

 of the country, of this horse being of the right Jelfz 

 blood, the most valuable breed in all Arabia, and 

 in every respect being a true and perfect Arab 

 horse. Mr. Bell gave out that this was the most 

 perfect, if not the first and only horse of the 

 genuine and most valuable Arab breed, that had 

 ever before been brought into England ; and at 

 the same time, from the great original price paid 

 for him, the value of the presents made to the 

 Arabs, the great expense incurred by having a 

 guard of ten men that Beny Suckr sent to attend 

 him during a journey of thirty days through the 

 deserts to St. John d'Acre ; his being carried from 

 thence by land to Aleppo, from Aleppo to England 

 ^ by sea, with the charges of the person who pur- 

 chased him during his journeys and voyages for 

 upwards of three years, was also the most costly 

 Arabian horse that had yet been seen in England 

 up to that period, viz : 1765. 



He was the sire of the Duke of Northumber- 

 land's Voltaire, Ticklepitcher, Babble, &c : of Sir 

 C. Bunbury's Orlando and Lazarus ; of the Duke 

 of Bolton's Cobscar, and Close; of Lord Clermont's 



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