MEETING WITH HASHEM BEY 



not follow any beaten roadway, but took her 

 over the rocks of the desert in a bee-line. The 

 further she went, he said, the stronger she 

 seemed to get, and the better she seemed to 

 move. At the end her cough did not seem to 

 be worse, and when Moore was on her she 

 didn't seem to be tired. She showed some of 

 the effects of the test when she was standing 

 still by continually resting. Moore wanted the 

 Arab horse to show him something, and he got 

 it without getting it second-hand. From that 

 time on he stood up for the Arab horse. 



What made this trial of the mare the more 

 wonderful was that while she was considered 

 among the Anezeh as their greatest race mare, 

 she had probably never before had on her back 

 more than 150 to 160 pounds. While Moore 

 was riding her the first evening we left Aleppo, 

 Akmet Haffez had outrun everybody in the 

 party with his Hamdenieh Simrieh filly, until 

 he came to race the Abeyeh mare. Then, to 

 the utter astonishment of everybody, this small 

 mare, carrying the handicap, easily outfooted 

 Haffez's horse in a half mile run. 



Among the horses we purchased at this time 

 was a bay Seglawieh Jedranieh mare, owned by 

 an old Bedouin, who wore a most tattered 



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