^5 "GENERAL BEALE," " HEGIRA" "ISLAM," 



Of domestic families he spoke of the high type and the low. The 

 bones in each told of the blood and breeding of the animal. The high 

 types were nearest to God's creation, but the low types of mongreliza- 

 tion spoke of man's ignorance, were soft and porous. 



The more the animal was mongrelized the softer and more porous 

 the bones became, also larger than in the foundation type. Mr. Ballay 

 was no horseman, nor was he in any way interested in them, nor did he 

 know of the different names of horses ; but he cited the two skeletons 

 he had mounted for the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. One 

 was of the thoroughbred Lexington, the other of Old Henry Clay. The 

 first had been removed from the flesh, not subject to decomposition ; 

 the latter, of Old Henry Clay, had been subject to fourteen years' burial 

 in the ground. He had cleaned, prepared, and mounted both, and pro- 

 nounced those of Henry Clay as from the best-bred animal, being finer, 

 more dense, and of an elastic character peculiar to the highest bred 

 animal. Those of Lexington were dense but brittle, showing inferior 

 blood and breeding. When I introduce the Arabian origin of Old 

 Henry Clay, I will let the intelligent student reason it out. Self-teaching 

 is the most effective. I am a self-convicted believer in the Bible and in 

 God, as I also know Mr. Henry M. Stanley to have been. The more 

 I studied into animal life, the more I became interested in Bible history, 

 seeking it for information I could nowhere else obtain. The deeper I 

 went, the more insignificant the scientific works I possessed (treating 

 upon such subjects) became. 



I have told the reader a little of what I knew of the breedings from 

 the Arabian horse by other civilized countries, and what they got; now 

 it has seemed to me that we, as a young country, should learn from the 

 old and more experienced. They have proved what can and what 

 cannot be done. I was always ready to listen to the old that I might 

 learn from their experience, and improve if possible upon them. Now 

 that I am old, who of the young will take up where I leave off? 



America is a young country, and far from being as old as were these 

 three great countries named, before they settled upon the different types 

 of horses now recognized as their national horse ; moreover, no one of 

 these countries found within themselves the blood from which to create 

 these types ; but each one went to Egypt or Arabia for the primitive 

 horse, for on no other spot upon the face of the globe could it be found, 

 except the country where God's word had been given to man, and at 

 which place names were given to all created animal life. 



Why was it that these three great nations went to Arabia for this 



