I am known by my sabre, the shock of battle, the pen and the paper;
I am sharper than a spear, and endure hunger like a wolf.
No matter: to-day I court solitude:
In solitude is happiness: age has taught me that.
Never again shall men behold me seeking a horse, or the love of
women, or the court of an Emir.
REMARKS BY THE EMIR ABD-EL-KADER.
Horses, though they are all of one and the same family, are of two different species: the first is the Arab race, the other the race of the Beradin. In like manner oxen, though of only one family, are of divers species: the first that of domestic cattle, which is the best known, and the second that of buffaloes: as different from one another in agility and weight as are the Arab horses from the Beradin. In like manner, too, the family of camels is one, and yet includes more than one species,—the Arab race and the race Bakhati.[[31]]
If the foal has for its sire an Arab horse, and for its dam an Arab mare, it is indisputably noble, hôor.