A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 2 [of 2] / A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "our Persian Campaign."

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THE CRADLE OF THE ARAB RACE .
A VISIT TO THE COURT OF THE ARAB EMIR, AND “OUR PERSIAN CAMPAIGN.”
By LADY ANNE BLUNT. AUTHOR OF “THE BEDOUIN TRIBES OF THE EUPHRATES.”
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. II.
WITH MAP, PORTRAITS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE AUTHOR’S DRAWINGS.
SECOND EDITION .
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, 1881.
“Je ne trouvai point en eux ces formes que je m’attendais à retrouver dans la patrie de Zeid el Kheil.”—Guarmani.
Nejd horses—Their rarity—Ibn Saoud’s stud—The stables at Haïl—Some notes of individual mares—The points of a Nejd head—The tribes in the Nefûds and their horses—Meaning of the term “Nejdi”—Recipe for training.
A chapter on the horses we saw at Haïl has been promised, and may as well be given here.
Ibn Rashid’s stud is now the most celebrated in Arabia, and has taken the place in public estimation of that stud of Feysul ibn Saoud’s which Mr. Palgrave saw sixteen years ago at Riad, and which he described in the picturesque paragraphs which have since been constantly quoted. The cause of this transference of supremacy from Aared to Jebel Shammar, lies in the political changes which have occurred since 1865, and which have taken the leadership of Central Arabia out of the hands of the Ibn Saouds and put it into those of the Emirs of Haïl.