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accefs to the mares : this is never done but in the 

 prelence of a witnefs, the fecretary of the Emir, 

 or fome public officer -, he a Herts the facl, records 

 the name of the horfe, mare, and whole pedigree 

 of each, and thefe atteftations * are carefully pre- 

 fer ved, for on thefe depend the future price of the 

 foal. 



The 



* The reader is here preferred with an original atteila- 

 tion, fome of which M. D 9 Ar<vieux fays have been preferred 

 for above 500 years in the public records. 



Taken before A BD ORR i\M AN, KADI 

 of A C C A. 



The Cccafion of this prefent Writing or Inftrument is that 

 at Ace a in the Houfe of Badi legal eihbliih'd Judge, appear'd 

 in Court Thomas Usgate the Engliih Conful and with him 

 Sheikh Mar ad Ebn al Hajj Ahdoilab, Sheikh of the County 

 of Safad, and the faid Conful dcfir'a from the aforefaid 

 Sheikh proof of the Race of the Grey Horfe which he bought 

 of him, and He afhrm'd to be l.lonaki Shaduhi *, but he was 

 not fatisiied with this but deiir'd the Testimony of the 

 Arabs, who bred the Horfe and knew how he came to Sheikh 

 Morad ; whereupon there appear'd certain Arabs of Repute 

 whefe names are undermention'd, who teltified and declar'd 

 that the Grey Horfe which the Conful formerly bought of 

 Sheikh Morad, is Monaki Shaduki of the pure Race of Korfes, 

 purer than Milk f, and that the Beginning of the Affair 



* Thefe are the Names of the tivo Breeds of Arab Horfes, ivbieb are reckoned 

 pure ar.d true, and thoje which arc of both the e Breeds by Father and Mother, 

 ere the tnofi noble ar.d free from Bafiardy, 



-p A Proverbial Exprejfor., 



' was. 



