A poor Arab refuses to sell his mare to a rich buyer when he discovers...

A poor Arab refuses to sell his mare to a rich buyer when he discovers the buyer is European. The French consul at Said, sitting on a chair under a tent, wanted the horse for King Louis XIV. The Arab in turban and loincloth rejects the gold, leaps on his horse and flees. The thoroughbred was for King Louis XIV. From an anecdote in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Studies of Nature. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.