CHAPTER VI 



THE EXCELLENCE OF THE ARAB ACCORDING TO 

 MAJOR-GENERAL TWEEDIE, GENERAL DAUMAS, 

 AND THE GREAT EMIR ABD-EL-KADER 



I NOW propose to certify the Arab to my readers, 

 first by some quotations from Major - General 

 Tweedie's recent great work on the subject, which 

 are entitled to very considerable weight, because 

 the book is written in a most judicial spirit, giving 

 fully both sides of the question. I do not think it 

 necessary to give both sides fully here ; because in 

 this State, at all events, the adverse side has been 

 preached and advocated usque ad nauseajn ; because 

 comparatively little has been said for the Arab ; and 

 because I am writing to show that there are great 

 merits in the Arab in opposition to the view of 

 his detractors, who pretend that there are next to 

 none. 



Major-General Tweedie has a quotation from Mr. 

 Sydney's book of the horse as to the endurance of 

 the Arab : ' The one quality in which Arabs excel 

 — endurance — and which they share with the 

 Australian horses and Indian mustangs, is not re- 



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