LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



1. Group of Mares and Foals at the Crabbet Arabian Stud, 



1898, ........ Frontispiece 



To face page 



2. Group of Arab Brood Mares, ...... 28 



3. Ibn Nura, Arabian horse, bred by the late Ali Pasha, 



Sherif in Cairo, descended from the mares and stallions 

 collected by Abbas I., Viceroy of Eg}'pt ; now at Sheykh 

 Obeyd Stud, colour white, flea-bitten, .... 44 



4. Gomussa, a two-year-old bay, by Kouch, out of Naomi, . 52 



5. Ibn Mesaoud, Arabian horse, bred at Sheykh Obeyd Stud ; 



dam Saada, a chestnut mare from the Roala tribe ; sire 

 Mesaoud, a chestnut descended from the mares and 

 stallions collected by Abbas I. First Prize in the class 

 for Arabian stallions, and Champion Prize in the class 

 for winners in all classes, Cairo Horse Show, 1896, . 70 



6. Group of Mares and Foals at the Crabbet Arabian Stud, 



1898, 94 



7. Bint Fereyha, brood mare descended from the mares and 



stallions collected by Abbas I., Viceroy of Egypt, bred 

 by the late Ali Pasha, Sherif in Cairo (with filly foal by 

 Ibn Nura) ; now at Sheykh Obeyd Stud, colour white, . 104 



8. Facsimile of Letter written by General Grant, . . . 124-5 



9. Nimr, grandsire of Naomi, . . . . . .128 



