MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



long argument, Haff ez got up and went away. 

 Sheikh AH followed him, and Haffez, turn- 

 ing, extended his hand, but the other Sheikh 

 would not take it. I asked the interpreter 

 what they meant and he told me that Akmet 

 Haffez did not believe the price asked for the 

 horse was a true estimate of their friendship, 

 and that the other man insisted that Haffez, 



The method of buying a horse in the Desert. Purchasing Azra, 

 a four-year-old Seglawie Obeyran. 



who had not been to the desert for many years, 

 was ignorant of the recent prices which the 

 Anezeh had been getting for horses. Haffez 

 had replied that he knew the price that every 

 horse had brought and that on the price of 



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