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APPENDIX. I. 
Several things concur to maintain this per- 
fection in the horses of Arabia, such as the 
great care the drabs 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 
500 years in the public records. 
TAKEN BEFORE 
ABDORRAMAN, KADI OF ACCA. 
The Occasion of this present Writing or Instrument is that 
at Acca in the House of Badz legal establish’d Judge, appear’d 
in Court Thomas Usgute the English Consul and with him 
Sheikh Morad Eln al Hajj Abdollah, Sheikh of the County of 
Safad, 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 Shadihi,t 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 
+ These are the Names of the two Breeds of Arab Horses, which are 
reckoned pure and true, and those which are of loth these Breeds by Father 
and Mother, are the most notle and free from Bastardy. 
