. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. hekh Abdu 1 Ka-dir, Gi-la-ni ; cynosure ofall the Sun-nite iVIuslim equally of Central Asia,Afghtaistan, and V. aitic, p. 47. U 154 THE BREEDERS OF THE ARABIAN. BOOK II. shoulder, was by no means built for weight-carrying. Use, however, is secondnature. In several respects he had suffered through carrying, before his bones werefully formed, a gendarme, whose saddle


. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. hekh Abdu 1 Ka-dir, Gi-la-ni ; cynosure ofall the Sun-nite iVIuslim equally of Central Asia,Afghtaistan, and V. aitic, p. 47. U 154 THE BREEDERS OF THE ARABIAN. BOOK II. shoulder, was by no means built for weight-carrying. Use, however, is secondnature. In several respects he had suffered through carrying, before his bones werefully formed, a gendarme, whose saddle was always loaded up with property ; buthe was better served by his defects than many horses are by their any rate, he proved capable of walking nearly five miles an hour, and marchingall day, under fifteen stone, without tiring. European travellers in the East,when they are choosing horses for a journey, should always look out for such ashave been working. Last year an officer of the Simla Intelligence Branch,who was leaving Baghdad for Persia, bought in the town a so-called roadster; andafter the first march, one of the poor animals fore-hoofs came off! We nevercould find out how it had been put JIOSQUE NEAR BAGHDAD. BOOK THIRD GENERAL VIEW OF THE ARABIAN CHAPTER I. THE ARABS LOVE OF HIS HORSE.


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