MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



Keff eyeh or headdress and whose face was one 

 of the most expressionless I had ever seen. 

 She sat low to the ground, but was very power- 

 ful and broad; her head, though not like the 



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When I offered this expressionless old horseman a hundred 

 and fifty pounds (French) for his Seglawieh-Jedranieh mare, 

 with a grunt of disgust he mounted and rode away. 



Abeyeh Sherrakieh's, was an expressive one. 

 The fact of her being a Seglawieh Jedranieh 

 made her of unusual interest and more than a 

 thousand Bedouins gathered round to see her. 

 She was a beast of evidently unusual power. 



Akmet Haffez asked me quietly if I wanted 

 her, and I said I did. He advised me not to 



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