Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-30
THE ARABIAN HORSE.

THE ARABIAN HORSE.
Intervening Account of the GeneaIOgy Of
Arab Horses BY Abd-el-Kadir
/ The following is the letter fron Emir Add ell
Kadir, in reply TO one from General Daumas, d.
rected to him, asking information concerning the
genealcgy Of the horses Of Sahara or st least that
which is attributed to them by the Arabs referred
to in an article in yesterdays issue Of this psper:
| thousand praises to the only God
! To Him who always remained unslteFable in the
/ midst Of The revolutions of this world.
To our friend, General Dau as, health and mer-
oy, and the blessing Of God be with you as the au-
thor Of this letter wishes it. his mother, his sORs
/ the mother Of these, as many persons as compose
/ this family, and all their friends and companions
| have read your questions, and direct unto you
/ my replies.
You ask Of me information concerning the origin
Of Arabian horses, and you find me as q assure Of
the earth dried By the sun, aud which the rain
not satisfy By the abundance which falls upon it.
Nevertheless, to satisfy, if it is possible, your
thirst upon this subject, proceed now 10 remount
to the source whence the water is always most pure
Know, then, that it is a thing admitted among us
that God created the horse with the wind, Adam
with the earth
This is indispuiable, and many prophets heath
| to them!) have proclaimed the followiug;-
When God wished to create the horse, he said 10
the south wind, 81 wish to form a creature out Of
| thee-be thou condensed" and the wind was cons
denssd.
Afterwards came the angel Gabriel and took
handful Of that matter, and presented it to God who
formed Of it light brown sOrrel oOored horse,
kouH1Hta (red mixed with black saying
have called the horse lfszazs)%-I have Great
| ed thee an Arab, and have given thee the color
kouHsmita; have bound fortune upon the name which
falls over thine eyes; thou shalt be the lord (sid) Of
all other animals; shall follow thee Whitherso
ever thou goesi; good for the pursuit as for the
heht-thou shalt fly without wings; riches shall re-
pose in thy loins, and wealth shall be made by thy
| intereession.'
Afterwards he marked it with the sign Of glory
and Of happiness ghgza "a star shining in the mid~
] die Of the forehead
Do you wish now 10 know if God created the
horse before man, or before the horse? HsTken.
God created the horse before man, and the proof
is, that being the superior creature, God ought
to have prepared for him whatever was necessary
! before He caused him to appear upon the earth
1.-THE wisdom Of God manifests that He has Gre
sted whatsoever exists upon the face Of the EARTH
for Adam and his posterity."
Behold testimony
When God had created Adam, he called him by
his name, and said to him
"Elect between the horse and 5oTak ~
Adam replied;--"Tbe most beautiful Of the two is
the horse;'' and God responded
"Well thou hast chosen thy glory and the glory Of
them because 1 have not created anything that can
be more dear to me than man and the horse"
God also created the horse before the mare, and
be ie7e the proof of this 10 be that the male is
noble than the female, and besides, more vigorous
and enduring Even when the two may be OF one
species the is imPRssionste than the other;
and it is the custom Of the Divinity 10 create that
which is strongest first. That which the horse de-
sres most is the combat and the race; for this
it is preferable for war, because it is seter snd
more Injured TO fatigue than the mare; and because
it psrtakes Of all The feelings of hate and tenderness
Of its rider The same thing does not happen in
the case Of the mare. Suppose horse and mare
I with similar wounds, such IS ought 10 produce
deaths the horse viii resist until il conducts its
ter cut Of the field Of battle; the mare, the
trary, will fall at the moment the same spot in
/ which it was wounded There is no doubt whatever
as 10 this for it is fact demonstrstedby the Arabs
have frequently Witnessed these cases in our cons
| bats, and have myself experienced it.
| Admitting this, pass TO another thing. Did
God create the Arab horses before foreign Der
radins) or these before the Arabs2
| Az consequence of my first reasoning. all must
behave that he created primarily the Arab horses,
iuasmuch as they arc iucontestibly the most noble.
On the other hand the bsTTadiHss are nothing but
species of q genus and the Almighty has never ere
ated the species before the genus.
And, wel-Ehenee proceed the Arab horses Of
| the present day?
MANY historians relate that from the time Of Adam
the horse, ali other animals-the gazee, the Os-
i trieh, the buffalo aud the ass-has lived in wild
| state According 20 those, the first person that,
/ after Adam, mounted the horse, vas Ishmael, the
| father Of the Arabs. he was the son Of our lord
I Abraham. the beloved Of God God taught him TO
call the horses and when he did they all assem-
| bled unto him; he possessed himself Of the most
beauli !ul and the most fierce. aud he tanned them.
But later many Of these horses tanned and EN-
ployed By Ishnae lost their purity with time. Oaly
ILL all is raoh
ness by Solomon, the son Of David and i is that
which is called zqd % rakej ho gift Of the rider)
10 which slI the Arab horses Of our epoch owe their
origin.
II ia believed that some Arabs Of the tribe Of Azed
went the noble Jerusalem to congratulate Solomon
on his marrisge with the QIeen Of Sheba. Their
mission being ended, they addressed 10 him these
s.O5 Drophet Of Godi Our country is very dis
t.nt our provisions exhausted; although thou art a
| great king give unto US sufficient that We may re-
turn to the bosom Of our family"
solomon caused q magnificent colt Of the race Of
Isbmsel 10 be taken from his stables, and he dis
missed them saying
"Bebold the provisions with which you are o be
refreshed upon The journey. When you are hungry
search for wood kinde fire, mount your best rider
on this horse and arm him With trusly lance You
shall scarcely have collected the wood and euliadled
the FIRE ere you shall him appear with the pro-
duct Of sn abundant hunt. Go, and may God give
you his protection"
The Arabs set forth upon their journey, and dia IN
their FIRST necessity Whatsoe yer Solomon had inslrue
ted them and neither ZsbTas, gazelles, nor os'
triches could ts3,pe them Enlightened, then' con
cerniag the value Of that snimal-the present from
the son Of David-and being already Ia their eouA-
try they devoted themselves to their reproduction
guarding their matches and thus they obtained tins
race, to which in gratitude they gave the name Of
zqd e Tdkeb
This is the race Wbosefsms was afterwards spread
Throughout the whole circumference OF the world
In fact it was propagated in the East and Wes
with the Arabs who az a later time penetraled into
the extremities Of the West and Of the East. Lonl
before Islamism, HsFmia-Ahen- Mellk and his de
seendants reigned in the East during 3 hundrec
years. founding that Medina andSakliaehedad-Eben
Aad. and possessing themselves Of all the countr!
unto the Moghreb, where they built cities and har
bors Afrikes, who gave his name 10 Africa, con
ouered unto Tandjs tTangiers), while his son Cha
mar possessed from the East unto China, enteriui
the city Of sad, which he destroyed. Because o
this, and from that time that place was called Cha