CHAPTER XIV 



ANOTHER PRESENT — HASSAN TASSHIN PASHA 



AND HIS HORSES. 



The route of the next day's journey took us 

 more to the south, and as we passed an en- 

 campment of the Sebaa Anezeh, a brown mare, 

 with a filly colt not more than fifteen days old 

 at her side, was shown to us. Haffez was es- 

 pecially anxious that I should see this filly, as 

 it was sired by the horse I was riding (the 

 Maneghi Sbeyel), and was his double over 

 again, without a white hair and with the same 

 pecuhar head. She was a dainty little thing 

 as she played round her mother, but I was 

 afraid she could not stand the long ride to 

 Alexandretta. Haffez, however, thought oth- 

 erwise, so I finally bought the mare and 

 filly. They were of the family of Hadban 

 Enzekhi, the first we had seen in the desert, 

 and I was glad of the opportunity to buy them 

 as it completed the purchase of representatives 



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