rii. XXVIII.] NiebiLlir quoted. 267 



niay he merely a new name for tlie Ahwaj, used 

 first as an epitliet, but afterwards superseding the 

 older name in Arabia. This supposition is favoured 

 by Niebuhr, who evidently treats tlie Kochlani, as 

 he calls them, as the generic name of the pure 

 Bedouin race, as contrasted with the Radishes or 

 town horses of the peninsula. 



"The Kochlani," he says, "are reserved for riding 

 solely. They are said to derive their origin from 

 King Solomon's studs. However this may be, they 

 are fit to bear the greatest fatigues * * *. The 

 Kochlani are neither large nor handsome " — (It must 

 be remembered that Niebuhr was a Dane, and took 

 his ideas of beauty in all probability from the great 

 Flanders' horses ridden by our ancestors. The 

 Eastern breed in his day, more than a, hundred 

 years ago, was liardly yet quite established even in 

 England), — " but amazingly swift ; it is not for their 

 figure, but for their velocity and other good qualities 

 that the Arabians esteem them. These Kochlani are 

 chiefly l^red by the Bedouins settled between Basra 

 Merdin and Syria, in which countries the nobility 

 never choose to ride horses of any other race. The 

 wiiole race is divided into several families, each of 

 which has its proper name ; that of Dsjulfa seems 

 to be the most numerous. Some of these families 

 have a higher reputation than others, on account of 

 their more ancient and uncontaminated nobility. 

 Although it is known by experience, that the 

 Kochlani are often inferior to the Kadischi, yet the 



