The horse : with a treatise on draught / by William Youatt.

  • William Youatt
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The horse : with a treatise on draught / by William Youatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fer TMs°is Of the legree of ^v^whjch £5 HoVpe -Uh^he rhJin-^stersCe’ocLionally much trouble in breaking which are naturally vicious, and e^^enp«‘ beyond the pace ^^the^ai'e ^Mdy^C^nd^hen thoroughly broken inlret^bk of endurfng’greal privations and fatigue- shod while they remain in the colony, or if they are, it i only' oni the lore feet Their principal food is carrots, with a small quantity of corn. No hay' is grownPnearPCape Town, nor are there any pastures on which the k°The whd^horseTliave long disappeared near totheco, ya - no authentic record that any of them were ever taken and attempted “is rarely seen in any part of the eastern coasWif Afnca It is not a native of Madagascar, but is again found in Ajan and Adel, the southern frontiers of Abyssinia. THE ARABIAN HORSE. Although modern Europe owes so much to Arabia for the improvement • w Wd of horses it may be doubted whether these animals were tartcountry of K.f'h EE'S “*>“ “ i* patriarch, who ws. a nntiro of as t thofich-. »-**zsnf s Sr^'ihSr JfKi’SiSXh h. soppliod .ho Phomiciim tli Roman emperor as the most acceptable present he could oder a powei ‘“solute as ^seventh century the Arabs had few horses, and those of little value ; for when Mahomet attacked the K^f^^^rderous but two horses in ’tat'^“twenty four thousand camels and forty thousa'nd 'slieep, and carried away twenty-four thousand ounces of silver, not one horse appears in the “ P-Tve that however superior may be T11086 _ ^ • . • ^lucratively lately that the horse was naturalised the present breed, 11 is comparative^ »- 7 u„,il within the last 5? his four ?mm“diaIrsuccelfors fled from Mecca to Medina on the night off rfnSiS nrhidiS..”* Cf taj* the Arsbieu ho, J “KS ‘irXTSfS^«'ti«h.ofArJdm.lm™.
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