TABLE OF CONTENTS 



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Preface ix 



CHAPTER 



I An Oregon Arab and What It Led to. . . . i 



II Procuring the Irade and the Start for 



THE Desert 9 



III The Sultan's Stables 19 



IV The Sultan of Turkey 28 



V From Constantinople to Antioch 50 



VI Antioch to Aleppo 61 



VII Akmet Haffez and the War Mare yy 



VIII The War Mare Greets the Desert 90 



IX We Feast with the Anezeh and Become 

 Better Acquainted — Inspection and 

 Purchase of Horses 105 



X An Important Ceremony in Which I Was 

 One of the Principals — A Circassian 

 Village, with a Visit to the Governor, 

 and What Befell Sheikh Ali 123 



XI As TO Dogs and as to One Dog in Par- 

 ticular 136 



XII The Meeting with Hashem Bey, the 



Great Sheikh of the Desert 150 



XIII Starting on the Return Journey and 

 Some Oriental Bargaining — The Begin- 

 ning OF THE Story of the Mare 167 



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