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of the chace, and live by the plundering- of 

 travellers. The horses are never hurt by any 

 servile employ; never injured by heavy bur- 

 thens, or by long journies; enjoy a pure dry 

 air, due exercise, great temperance, and great 

 care. 



Every horse in Arabia (except those which 

 by way of contempt are called Guidich, or pack 

 horses) has a degree of good qualities superior 

 to those of any other place ; yet it is not to be 

 supposed, but that there are certain parts of 

 that country, which have attained a higher perfec- 

 tion in the art of management than the others. 

 Thus we find by some late information,* that 

 Yemen in Arabia Fellv is at present in great 

 repute for its breed; for the jockies of that 

 part have acquired such a superior name, as to 

 be able to sell their three year old horses for 

 • two or three hundred guineas a-piece, and when 

 they can be prevailed on to part with a favorite 

 stallion, they will not take less for it than fifteen 

 hundred guineas. It is from this counti'y that 

 the great men in India are supplied with horses, 

 for India itself is possessed of a very bad kind ; 

 these noble animals being much neglected there, 

 from the constant use of the Buffalo, not only 

 , in tillage, but even in riding. 

 ' * Wall, on horses, 74. 



