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CHAPTER IV. 



A BATCH OF CURIOUS MATCHES. 



In tlie case just narrated the Arab horse certainly 

 showed wonderful power of endurance ; but then it 

 should be remembered that he was at home, running 

 in a climate to which he was accustomed, and over a 

 course to which he was no stranger. But the question 

 was not to be considered as settled. English officers 

 on their way to India would still brag of the superior 

 qualities of the English thoroughbred ; so a trial of 

 another kind took place, the particulars of which 

 were duly published in BelVs Life : 



'A match which has caused quite a sensation 

 here for some time past has at length been brought 

 to a conclusion. It was a question of endurance 

 between the Arab and the English horse in the 

 desert ; and this having been a much-vexed question 

 for years past among sportsmen generally, an account 

 of the proceedings will surely prove interesting to the 

 readers of jomv columns. 



'The above-mentioned question of endurance 

 having been raised between his Highness Prince 



