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from government. In the province of Ducaila, the 

 breed is of high reputation. 



Some years ago we were informed by a Moorish 

 gentleman that the Emperor had made a cross breed 

 with his finest mares and a giant black stallion sent 

 from England, we think the horse above eighteen 

 hands high which was exhibited in London, and 

 that he had succeeded in rearing several splendid 

 black horses from it, which were the wonder of his 

 countrymen. Here we have an actual instance of 

 introducing a cross of the black race with the Arab 

 stock, already partially mixed at a former period 

 with the same blood, and the black so called Ara- 

 bian horses in England are very likely real Barbs. 



On the sandy plains, south of Atlas, are 



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or drinkers of the wind, reared by the Mograbins 

 of the West ; they are brown or grey, rather low, 

 shaped like greyhounds, destitute of flesh, or, as 

 Mr. Davidson terms it, like a bag of bones; but 

 their spirit is high and endurance of fatigue prodi- 

 gious. On an occasion where the chief of a tribe, 

 where he sojourned, was robbed of a favourite and 

 fleet animal of this race, the camp went out in pur- 

 suit eight hours after the theft; at night, though 

 the animal was not yet recovered, it was already 

 ascertained that the Daman pursuers had headed 

 his track and would secure him before morning. 

 The messenger who returned with the intelligence 



