Identifier: arabianhorsehisc00twee (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Tweedie, W. (William), 1836-1914
Subjects: Arabian horse Horses
Publisher: Edinburgh London : W. Blackwood and Sons
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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ich, however, is composed of diverse members, from thewell-to-do merchant, down to the black slaves of Muhammad ibnu r Ra-shid. Themen from El Irak are too mixed for description ; and their buying-grounds extendfrom Zu-bair and Bussorah, by Suku sh Shu-yukh, Hilla, Baghdad, Der, and evenTadmur, to Aleppo and Damascus; or otherwise, by Kar-kuk and the Persianfrontier to Mosul and Urfa. And last, but not least, there is the great companysettled in Ku-wait, the members of which pride themselves, not without justice,on their Arab exclusiveness, and on bringing round only Arab horses. It shouldnot be imagined that all this army, when absent from India, disperses itself overthe Arabian deserts in search of horses. Here, as elsewhere, the principle of thedivision of labour comes into action. There are numerous thin fellows of smallcapital who travel from camp to camp of the Bedouin, but such men are slow toassume the role of exporters. Either the sight of the sea at Bussorah, or dread of the
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>--CQ I-< H < I ILlCO cco I m< << OF BUYING ARABIANS WHICH HAVE BEEN EXPORTED. 301 expenses, inclines them to transfer their purchases en bloc to one of the establishedmerchants. Many of the latter are fat men and Hajjis, who prefer the coffee-housebench to the shi-ddd, or camel-saddle. When they return to their homes in summer,after two sea-voyages and many months of angling for purchasers in the Bombaystables, they like to take life quietly. Day after day they may be seen seated in someconvenient market-place, where every horse that is brought into the town will passbefore them. They thoroughlj^ understand that a horse when well bought is alreadyhalf sold, and the one point which they keep before them in making their selectionsis the point oiprofit. The more enterprising of their number will give a hundredliras for a colt which appears likely to bring twice that sum in the land of promise,India; but the members of the sure and safe division prefe

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