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his name to a tribe, was the sixth only in descent from 

 Joktan, and that among the seventeen kings who suc- 

 ceeded him was one Africus, who called Africa after 

 himself Perhaps in the time of Hamyar the Arabian 

 horse was taken into Africa ; hardly later than that of 

 Africus. 



Here it may not be out of place to draw attention to 

 collateral events. When Abram went down into Egypt, 

 no mention is made of the horse ; but he is mentioned 

 as being in that country in the time of Joseph, the great- 

 grandson of the patriarch. Abram was the fifth only 

 from Peleg, the founder of the family, brother to Joktan ; 

 and Hamyar, from whom, doubtless, the best race of 

 horses in Africa takes its name, was sixth in descent. 

 Supposing Abram and Hamyar to have been contem- 

 poraries, there would have been ample time for the horse 

 to have been introduced into Egypt from Arabia, and 

 to have been established, the period being rather over 

 two hundred years. Abram went into Egypt about 

 1920 B.C. ; and the horse is first mentioned in the Bible, 

 1702 B.C. But there is an indirect mention of the 

 horse. Anah discovered mules in the wilderness, while 

 feeding the asses of Zibeon. This, it must be remem- 

 bered, was in Arabia, although in the northern or north- 

 eastern part, and the date would either be 1840 B.C. or 

 1760 B.C. The former would be the more correct date 

 if I be right in the surmise that this Anah was the 

 daughter of Zibeon and mother of Esau's wife, Aholi- 

 bamah ; but in either case it would be a considerable 

 time prior to the first mention of the horse in Egypt. 



