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from his valuable work made such extracts, as enabled 

 me to write a condensed history of English horses up to 

 1879. 



Major Roger D. Upton's Travels in Arabia certified 

 and established the truth of what the Count had told 

 me, in most respects. Greatly to my satisfaction, it is all 

 told in plain English, most interestingly and delightfully 

 written — for sometimes, I will admit, there was a struggle 

 between my ears and my understanding, to catch the 

 exact meaning of the Count's English. 



In being obliged to quote so largely from other writers, 

 it is quite impossible to appear in any sense original. 

 But the end must justify the means, when it is to great 

 travellers and profound students that we owe certain in- 

 formation. And here I beg their indulgence for having 

 quoted exactly and sometimes largely, but in sincerest 

 admiration of both ideas and language. 



To Mr Vidal's most kindly interest I am not only 

 indebted for many 'points' in this 'second part,' but 

 also to his thoughtfulness in furnishing me with several 

 interesting photographs of his exquisite Arabs. 



The horses shown me at Newbuildings and Crabbett 

 Park by Lady Anne Blunt are wonderfully beautiful, and 

 perfect specimens of the native Arab, and among them 

 I noticed especially three mares with their baby foals 

 beside them, Nefisa, Bint Nura and Jerud, also Mesaoud, 

 a superb staUion, whose dam was brought from Arabia 

 to Egypt by Abbas Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt. 



The few hours I passed with her were most interesting. 

 So enthusiastically devoted are both Lady Anne and Mr 

 Blunt to the breeding of the true Arab horse, that they 

 now own a house in the desert near Cairo, and pass their 



