114 Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates, [ch. xx. 



bad done liim a good turn some years ago. The 

 incident was as follows : The King of Italy had sent 

 an agent to Aleppo to buy horses, and the Italian 

 consul there had beo-o-ed Mr. S.'s advice and assist- 

 ance in the matter. Abd er Rahman was employed 

 by them to negotiate for a jDarticular horse they had 

 seen and approved. He set out with the money, 

 about £100, to pay for it, and was attacked near 

 Tudmur by a party of thirty-six Gomussa out on a 

 ffhazLi. Abd er Eahman in vain be2:2;ed to be 

 allowed to pass, saying, " I am sent by the English 

 consul for a horse," but they, not knowing 

 him, would have robbed him had not Seyd ibn 

 Barghash, Avho was of the party, and was a friend 

 of Mr. S.'s, insisted on their letting him go un- 

 molested. 



Beteyen and Meshur have both been to Hlyel in 

 the Jebel Shammar, and give exactly the same 

 account of the horses of Nejd as everyone else has 

 given. I need not repeat it. Ibn Rashid, they 

 say, buys his horses from them. As to the winter 

 migration of the Anazeh, it is not true that they 

 ever get as far south as Jebel Shammar. They stop 

 north of the Nefiids, perhaps three or four days' 

 journey from the hills, but they sometimes go there 

 on ghazus, or on business to the towns. Ibn Eashid, 

 however, is not friendly with them, being by birth 

 a Shammar. 



We were talking over the purchase of his mare 

 with Beteyen, when a messenger from his tent 



