182 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. 



who, as we saw, have for a long time been constantly crossing 

 their Turcoman ponies with Arab stallions (p. 132). 



Upton^ noticed very frequently among colt foals, though 

 not in fillies, " a line somewhat darker than the general colour 

 of the animal running in continuation of the mane along the 

 spine, and to be traced for some way even among the long 

 hair of the tail. It is not obliterated with age ; it can be 

 traced in old horses and in those of a very dark colour." 



The Bedouin tribes of the desert south-west and west of 

 the Euphrates, who are far less migratory than the Anazah, 

 some being almost stationary, and cultivating the soil to some 

 extent, as a rule, have very few mares, and though there are 

 some good mares to be found, they do not present the same 

 appearance of high breeding and class as those of the Anazah, 

 being " less even and more variable in appearance," occasionally 

 ewe-necked, a feature unknown among Anazah horses. Ac- 

 cording to their own account these tribes use little or nothing 

 but Anazah horses as sires, and Upton^ had known instances 

 where mares had been sent long distances to an Anazah horse, 

 whose owner had taken up his temporary abode with one of 

 these tribes. "The colours of their horses are not so decided 

 or distinct nor are bays so decidedly frequent as among the 

 Anazah tribes." They pass on their own colts to other tribes, 

 to the villages on the border of the desert and into Syria and 

 Erack (Turkish Arabia). 



In Syria, where, as we have already seen, there are the 

 common Turcomans, "the sons of horses," and full-blooded 

 Arabs, many of the horses are called Anazah, but as it seems 

 probable that any desert-bred horses in Syria are obtained 

 from the nearest Bedouin, they have, therefore, Anazah blood 

 in them, and very often are the progeny of Anazah sires ^ 



Turkish Arabia (the Babylonia of the ancients) is the 

 country which supplies Arab horses both to Constantinople 

 and to India. There are horses of nearly pure Arab blood, 

 and there are horses of a mixed race from the blood of the 

 Arabian introduced upon the former Babylonian, Persian, and 



1 Op. cit. p. 339. " Op. cit. pp. 880-1. 



3 Op. cit. p. 372. 



