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is accordingly a prima facie probability that a 

 similar origin may be attributed to the domesticated 

 horses of Africa. 



This view is adopted by Mr. T. A. Cook,^ who, 

 after referring to Professor Ridgeway's Libyan 

 theory, and stating that the Barb is as different 

 from the true Arab as is the Turk from either, 

 proceeds to observe that "as a matter of much 

 greater probability, the kehailan, or Arabian, was 

 the original type from which both Barb and 

 Turk were early derivatives, and it was from the 

 East, and not from the West, that ancient Egypt 

 took her best breed, as eighteenth-century England 

 took it later on." 



As mentioned in an earlier chapter,^ Dr. Duerst 

 holds that the Arab had an Asiatic origin, and 

 that, like the horses of Western Europe, it was a 

 derivative from the tarpan stock ; the intermediate 

 form in the case of the Arab being his so-called 

 desert type. *' The wild ancestral form," he writes, 

 " was the same for both [that is, the Arab and 

 the horse of Western Europe] ; it was the diluvial 

 horse of the ancient world, which roamed as far as 

 the loess-steppes and tundra-plains extended ; and 

 which, surviving in separate groups the disappear- 

 ance of the tundras, was transformed, according to 



1 Eclipse and O' Kelly, London, 1907, p. 13. 



2 Supra, p. 96 ; the passage here quoted is from page 399 of 

 Dr. Duerst's work. 



