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lection when the object is out of my fight. This horfe’s: — 
- name was El Fudda, the meaning of which I will not pre- 
tend to explain. In Egypt this. is the name of a: {mall piece 
of money clipped into points, otherwife called a parat; but, 
very probably, the name of horfes in Nubia may have as 
little allufion to the quality of the animal.as the name’ 
which our race-horfes have in England; they are, how- 
ever, very jealous in keeping up their pedigree. All noble 
horfes'in Nubia are faid to be defcended of one of the 
five upon which Mahomet and his four immediate fuc- 
ceflors, Abou Becr, Omar, Atman, and Ali, fled from Mecca: 
to Medina, the night of the Hegira. From which of thefe 
El Fudda was defcended I did not inquire ; Shekh Adelan; 
armed, as he fought, with his coat of mail and war faddle,. 
iron-chained bridle, brafs cheek-plates, front-plate, breaft- 
plate, large broad-fword, and battle-ax, did not weigh lefs. 
upon the horife than 26 ftone, horfeman’s weight. This. 
horfe kneeled to receive his mafter, armedas he was, whem 
he mounted, and he kneeled to let him difmount armed: 
likewife, fo that no advantage could be taken of him in 
thofe helplefs times when a man is obliged to arm and: 
difarm himfelf piece by. piece on horfeback.. Adelan,. in 
war, was a fair-player, and gave every body his chance. 
He was the firft man always that entered among the ene- 
my, and the laft to leave them, and never changed this horfe.: 
The horfes of Halfaia and Gerri do not-arrive at the fize of 
thofe in Dongola, where few are lower than 16 hands. ‘They 
‘are black or white, but a vaft proportion of the former tothe 
latter. I never faw the colour we call grey, thatis, dappled, but 
there are fome bright bays, or inclining to ferel. They are 
all kept monftroufly = upon dora, cat nothing green but 
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