next，black with blaze and three white legs （bad，because whitehoofs are brittle）：next，bay with white blaze and white fore and hind legs.'He also said，'Prosperity is with sorrel horses；'and praised a sorrel with white forehead and legs；but he dispraised the'Shikal，'which has white stockings （Arab.'Muhajjil'） on alternate hoofs （e.g. right hind and left fore）. The curious reader will consult Lady Anne Blunt's'Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates，with some Account of the Arabs and their Horses'（1879）；but he must remember that it treats of the frontier tribes. The late Major Upton also left a book'Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia'（1881）；but it is a marvellous production deriving e.g. Khayl （a horse generically） from Kohl or antimony （p. 275）. What the Editor was dreaming of I cannot imagine. I have given some details concerning the Arab horse especially in AlYaman，among the Zu Mohammed，the Zu Husayn and the Banu Yam in Pilgrimage iii. 270. As late as Marco Polo's day they supplied the Indian market via Aden；but the'Eye o AlYaman'has totally lost the habit of exporting horses.
[138] The shoveliron which is the only form of spur.
[139] Used for the dromedary： the baggagecamel is haltered.