cH. XXVIII.] N'o lurittcu Pcdigj'ccs. 269 



It should seem that there are also Kochlani in 

 Heclsjas and in the country of Dsjof ; but I doubt if 

 they be in estimation in the domains of the Imam, 

 where the horses of men of rank appeared to mc 

 too handsome to be Kochlani. The Endish, how- 

 ever, sometimes purchase these horses at the price 

 of 800 or 1000 crowns each. An EnMish merchant 



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was offered at Bengal twice the purchase-money for 

 one of these horses ; but he sent him to England, 

 where he hoj^ed that he would draw four times the 

 original price." 



I have given this extract almost in, extenso, as it 

 is interesting in spite of some blunders, which are 

 easily explained by the fact that Niebuhr never 

 visited the great horse-breeding tribes. It shows, 

 at any rate, that the names of the breeds were at 

 that time as clearly established as now, and that 

 these are in no wise a mere modern invention, as 

 some assert, got up by horse-dealers for the benefit 

 of Englishmen in India. The notion of such an 

 imposture is not to be entertained by anyone who 

 has conversed, even for half an hour, on horseflesh 

 with a Bedouin. The fanatics about breedino- are 

 not the English but the Bedouins themselves ; and 

 it is inconceivable these can have been converted 

 by any conspiracy of horse-dealers. An equally 

 absurd idea, also current in India, is that the 

 Anazeh breed has within the last sixty or seventy 

 years received an infusion of English blood. Some 

 talk of English thoroughbred horses, left by the 



