MY QUEST OF THE ARAB HORSE 



The first mare that was led into view was a 

 flea-bitten, tall and well-made gray mare, 

 standing more than fifteen hands high. She 

 was a Kehileh Heife, a breed much prized, as 

 we had found out from the Anezeh, and play- 

 ing at her side was a baby horse colt, foaled 

 in June of that year. The colt was fat and 

 husky and was chasing dogs. At a distance he 

 looked like a Clydesdale, without the hair on 

 his legs, and much resembled Reysdack's 

 "Hamiltonian." 



The Pasha was pleased at our admiration of 

 his horses, especially as he had been apologiz- 

 ing for them. Indeed they were as fine as any- 

 thing we had seen in the desert, especially a 

 three-year-old Kehilan Heife stallion, stand- 

 ing fifteen hands, without a white hair on him 

 a dark gray Dahman Shahwan, two years old 

 a three-year-old chestnut stallion, a Seglawi 

 Jedran, brought specially for the Pasha from 

 Nejd, and a chestnut filly two-year-old Kahileh 

 Heife, daughter of the flea-bitten gray mare. 



We saw Akmet Haffez in conversation with 

 the Pasha, and soon the latter began to talk 

 with much emphasis. It seemed that Haffez 

 was trying to compel the Pasha to sell us the 

 three-year-old bay stallion and that the Pasha 



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