II 6 THE HISTORY AND ART 



cuflomed to be together in great numbers, that their 

 o-Nvners venture to trufl. them whole days by themfelves, 

 and are under no apprchenfion of mifchief, from their 

 biting or kicking one another. 



The Jrabs fell fuch of their horfes as they do not like 

 to keep for StalHons, and are moft fcrupuloufly exa6t in 

 preferving their Pedigrees *", evqn for ages back-, fothat 

 they know, with the utmoft certainty, their parentage, 

 alliances, and genealogy ; diflinguifliing each family, 

 or breed, by different appellations or epithets, and di- 

 viding the whole kind into three clalTes. 



The firfl: is called Ncble, being the pureft and moft 

 ancient, without ever having received any flain or 

 mixture, on the fide of the fues or dams. 



The 



* The following is tranflated from an original Arabian certificate, by 

 the learned and ingenious Mr. Charming^ eminent for his (kill in 

 the oriental tongues, and communicated to the author by his Grace 

 High Duke oi Northumberland. 



1 he fhcrt account of his pedigree, and caufe of fale, are thefe. 



I, the Fakir Mohammed, ion of the Hadg Chalil, fon of Sheich 

 Suleiman, Sheich of the village of Alchadar, adjoining to the back of 

 mount Sihangan, have now fold my bay mottled horfe Bik, a thorough 

 Arabian, fon of the bay mare Alkahila, got by N if, of Gialf, a bay 

 with black eyelids, a noble Arabian. Th^ mother of the horfe (Nif j 

 was the m.are HulTein Ali Beg. He has the full powers of generation. 

 T, the Fakir, who ftand in need of the mercy of the moft high God, to 

 whom be praife, Mohammed, fon of Hadg Chalil, fon of Sheich Su- 

 leiman, even I have now fold my before-mentioned horfe, who is 

 among my horfes, and in: my enclofure. He is a bay mottled horfe, 

 black eye-lidded. The witncfTes below atteft his breed and family : 



the 



