MEETING WITH HASHEM BEY 



age") and with all the cartridges I had with 

 me, and he took them not so much as a present 

 as an addition to his supply of guns. Of 

 course we discussed horses with him at great 

 length, and, as the highest authority in the 

 world on Arab horses, he cleared away -many 

 doubtful points relative to the breed. I had 

 my Arab horse books along with me, including 

 the last volume of Roger D. Upton, -in which 

 he mentions all the famihesgand sub-families of 

 the Arab horse. These were carefully exam- 

 ined by the Sheikh, and those which were con- 

 sidered "Chubby" by the Anezeh were marked 

 thus. He said the Abeyeh Sherrakieh mare, 

 which Arthur JNIoore had just ridden back from 

 Aleppo, had the rarest head there was in the 

 desert, and she, herself, was one of the most 

 valuable of mares. 



Moore had come to the desert an entire skep- 

 tic on the subject of Arab horse. He had 

 heard in America so much talk about the Arab 

 by Ignorant people and had failed to find any 

 proof of their stories, that he was an entire dis- 

 believer. He went to the desert convinced 

 that our Cayuse horses could outrun, outlast, 

 outwork and outdo the Arab in everything ex- 

 cept looks. 



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