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they must send special agents into the heart 

 of the Desert. 



" Ces nobles animaux ne viendrout pas nous 

 trouver sur le littoral, il faut aller les chercher 

 dans l'interieur des terres, souvent au loin." 



The reader has seen that Burkhart travelling 

 in Syrian deserts expresses the same opinion 

 as to the only mode of obtaining in these coun- 

 tries the best horses. 



Whenever competent judges shall go into 

 the heart of the Desert, ready to give high 

 prices, they will obtain very valuable horses, 

 but such persons must look to fine form and 

 true action, as well as endurance. On no 

 account must they select horses with straight 

 shoulders or weak loins. Neither must they 

 object to a horse on account of low stature, 

 because when our system of feeding is applied 

 to small but vigorous Arabs, the progeny ob- 

 tained from them will, like that obtained from 

 their predecessors on our turf, be only too 

 much disposed to acquire high stature, in doing 

 which they, after a time, wholly lose the com- 

 pact and strong form of their ancestors. 



There is no doubt that the stature of our 



