302 APPENDIX. 1. 



Several things concur to maintain this per- 

 fection in the horses of Arabia, such as the 

 great care the Arabs take in preserving the breed 

 genuine, and by permitting none but stallions 

 of the first form to have access to the mares : 

 this is never done but in the presence of a wit- 

 ness, the secretary of the Emir, or some public 

 officer; he asserts the fact, records the name 

 of the horse, mare, and whole pedigree of 

 each, and these attestations* are carefully pre- 



* The reader is here presented with an original attestation, 

 some of which M. D'Arvieux says have been preserved for above 

 600 years in the pubUc records. 



TAKEN BEFORE 

 ABDORRAMAN, KADI OF ACCA. 



The Occasion of this present Writing or Instrument is that 

 ' at AccA in the House o? Badi legal establish'd Judge, appear'd 



in Court Thoinas Usgate the English Consul and with him 

 Sheikh Morad Ehn al Hajj Ahdollah, Sheikh of the County of 

 Sqfad, and the said Consul desir'd from the aforesaid Sheikh 

 proof of the Race of the Grey Horse which he bought of him, 

 and He affirm'd to be Monaki Shaduhi,f but he was not satis- 

 fied with this but desir'd the Testimony of the Arabs, who bred 

 the Horse and knew how he came to Sheikh Morad ; where- 

 upon there appear'd certain Arabs of Repute whose names are 

 undermention'd, who testified and declar'd that the Grey Horse 



•f These are the Names of the two Breeds of Aral Horses, which are 

 reckoned pure a?id true, and those which are of Loth these Breeds by Father 

 and Mother, are the most nolle and free from Bastardy. 



