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going to yield tliee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close — who will beat thee — who will 
render thee miserable. Eeturn with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts of my chil- 
dren.' As he pronounced the last words he sprang upon her back, and was out of sight in a 
moment."* 
* The following are extracts from a paper on the Arabian Horse, recently addressed by the Emir Abd-el-Kader to 
General Daumas, who had made inquiries of him, on the part of the French government, in relation to the Arabian 
Horse : 
CEEATIOX OF THE HOESK. 
" Know, then, that it is a thing admitted among us, that God created the horse with the wind, as Adam with the 
earth. 
" This is indisputable, and many prophets (health to them !) have proclaimed the following : 
"When God wished to create the horse, he said to the south wind, 'I wish to form a creature out of thee — be thou 
condensed ;' and the Avind was condensed. 
" Afterward came the angel Gabriel, and took a handful of that matter and presented it to God, who formed of it 
a light brown or sorrel-colored horse, l:oummita (red mixed with black), saying : 
"'I have called thee horse {ferass), I have created thee an Arab, and I have given thee the color koummita ; I 
have bound fortune upon the mane which falls over thine eyes ; thou shalt be the lord of all other animals ; men 
shall follow thee whithersoever thou goest ; good for the pursuit as for flight— thou shalt fly without wings ; riches 
shall repose in thy loins, and wealth shall be made by thy intercession.' " 
HISTORY OP THE AEABIAX BEEED. 
"Many historians relate that from the time of Adam the horse, as all other animals — the gazelle, the ostrich, the 
buffalo, and the ass — had lived in a wild state. According to them, the first person that, after Adam, mounted the 
horse, was Ishmael, the father of the Arabs ; he was the son of our lord Abraham, the beloved of God. God taught 
him to call the horses, and when he did so they all assembled unto him ; he possessed himself of the most beautiful 
and the most fierce, and he tamed them. 
"But later, many of these horses tamed and employed by Ishmael lost their purity with time. Only one race was 
carefully preserved in all its nobleness, by Solomon the son of David, and it is that which is called zad-el-raJ:eb (the 
gift of the rider), to which all the Arab horses of our epoch owe their origin. 
" It is believed that some Arabs, of the tribe of Azed, went to the noble Jerusalem to congratulate Solomon on his 
marriage with the Queen of Sheba. Their mission being ended, they addressed unto him these words : 
" ' 0 prophet of God ! Our country is very distant, our provisions exhausted ; although thou art a great king, give 
unto us sufficient that we may return to the bosom of our family.' 
"Solomon caused a magnificent colt of the race of Ishmael to be taken from the stables, and he dismissed them, 
saying : 
" ' Behold the provisions with which you are to be refreshed upon the journey. When you are hungry, search for 
wood, kindle a fire, mount your best rider on this horse, and arm him with a trusty lance. You shall scarcely have 
collected the wood and enkindled the fire ere you shall see him appear with the product of an abundant hunt. Go, 
and may God give you his protection.' 
" The Arabs set forth upon their journey, and did, in their first necessity, whatsoever Solomon had instructed them, 
and neither zebras, nor gazelles, nor ostriches could escape them. Enlightened, then, concerning the value of that 
animal — the present from the son of David — and being already in their country, they devoted themselves to their re- 
production, guarding their matches, and thus they obtained this race, to which, in gratitude, they gave the name of 
zad-el-rakeb. 
"This is the race whose fame was afterward spread throughout the whole circumference of the world. 
" In fact, it was propagated in the East and West with the Arabs, w'ho, at a later time, penetrated into the extremi- 
ties of the West and of the East. Long before Islamism, Harmiah-Ahen-Melok and his descendants reigned in the 
East during a hundred years, founding that Medina and Sakliachedad-Eben-Aad, and possessing themselves of all 
the country unto the iloghreb, where they built cities and harbors. Afrikes, who gave his name to Africa, conquered 
unto Tandja (Tangiers), while his son Chamar possessed from the East unto China, entering the city of Sad, which 
he destroyed. Because of this, and from that time, that place was called Chamarkenda, because 7:enda in the Persian 
language means 'he has destroyed,' whence the Arabs, by corruption, have drawn Samarkanda. 
" After the birth of the religion of Islam, the new invasions of the Mussulmans extended even more the reputation 
of the Arab horses in ItoXj, Spain, and also in France, in which, without doubt, they left some of their blood. But 
that which, above all, caused Africa to be filled with Arab horses, was the invasion of Sidi-Okba, and afterward the 
deeds of the fifth and sixth centuries of the Hegira. With Sidi-Okba, the Arabs had not done any thing more than 
to encamp in Africa, while in the fifth and sixth centuries they came as colonists to install themselves, with their 
wives and their children, with their horses and their mares. It was in these last invasions that the Arab tribes es- 
tablished themselves on the soil of Algeria, especially the Mehall, the Cjendel, Oalad-Mehadi, the Donaonda, &c., Ac, 
who were scattered over all parts, constituting the true nobility of the country. These same invasions transplanted 
the Arab horse into Soudan, and we can say with reason that the Arab race is one in Algeria as in the East. 
"Thus, then, the history of the Arab horses can be divided into four epochs: 1. From Adam to Ishmael. 2. From 
Ishmael to Solomon. 3. From Solomon to Mohammed. 4. From Mohammed to ourselves. 
" I have now nothing more to do than to satisfy another of your questions. 
" You ask me by what signs the Arabs know if a horse is noble — if he is a drinker of the air. Behold my answer : 
" The horse of pure origin is distinguished among us by the tenuity of the lips and of the inferior cartilage of the 
