In a comparable description, archaeologist Layard wrote: “Although docile as a lamb, and requiring no other guide than the halter, when the Arab mare hears the war - cry of the tribe, and sees the quivering spear of her rider, her eyes glitter with fire, her blood - red nostrils open wide, her neck is nobly arched, and her tail and mane are raised and spread out to the wind. ” ​ — Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 1853, page 330.
उसकी पूँछ और अयाल भी इस तरह उठने लगते हैं मानो उसने उनको पवन के हवाले कर दिया हो । ” — नीनवे और बाबुल के खंडहरों में खोज, अँग्रेज़ी, सन्‌ 1853, पेज 330.