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marks of Kentucky. The same is the case with 

 other types or semi-types, but I only particularize 

 these because the mere mention of them shows to 

 what uses this singularly prepotent blood can be 

 put when the two extremes of equine types, and 

 those between the extremes as well, appear to 

 owe their reproducing quality to the blood of 

 these handsome little animals that have been 

 bred, preserved and, so far as possible, monopo- 

 lized by the nomadic tribes of Barbary and of 

 Nejd. Nejd comprises the nine provinces of Cen- 

 tral Arabia, while the Berbers wander all through 

 the Barbary states which consist of Morocco, Al- 

 geria, Tunis, and Tripoli, but keep as remote as 

 possible from what European influence that ex- 

 ists in that section of the world. 



To most horsemen in America the name of 

 Arab is anathema. They will have none of him. 

 So far as their light goes they are quite right in 

 their prejudice. But prejudice in this instance, as 

 in most others, is the result of ignorance. And I 

 trust in the light of what I shall say about the 

 Nejdee Arabian, the Berbers of Barbary and the 

 influence of this blood on the equine stock of the 



