THE HORSE. 21 



Instance of attachment Pedigree of horses. 



only a miserable rag, a covering for his body, 

 arrived with his magnificent courser. He dis- 

 mounted,, and looking first at the gold, and then 

 stedfastly at his mare, heaved a deep sigh: - 

 " To whom is it," he exclaimed, " that I am 

 going to yield thee up? To Europeans! who will 

 tie thee close, who will beat thee, who will ren- 

 der thee miserable! Return with me, my beauty, 

 my jewel ! and rejoice the hearts of my children I" 

 As he pronounced the last words, he sprang upon 

 her back, and was out of sight almost in a mo- 

 ment. 



M. Sonnini observes, " that the horses of the 

 Bedouin Arabs, whose lives are spent in travers- 

 ing the scorching sands, are able, notwithstand- 

 ing the fervency of the sun, and the suffocating 

 heat of the soil over which they pass, to travel 

 three days without drinking, and are contented 

 with a few handsful of dried beans given once in 

 twenty-four hours. From the hardness of their 

 labour and diet they are, of course, very lean, 

 yet they preserve incomparable vigour and cou- 

 rage." 



It is a curious fact, that the Arabians preserve 

 the pedigree of their horses with the utmost care 

 for several ages. They know their alliances, and 

 all their genealogy, and divide the races into three 

 distinct classes : Of these, the first is that of the 

 nobles, or the ancient breed, of pure and unadul- 

 terated blood ; the second is that of the ancient 



