CONTENTS.

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I.Domestication of the Horse—Horse Furniture—Various Breeds—Blood Horses—Ponies[1]
II.Physiognomy of the Horse—Sagacity—Fidelity—Sociability, &c.—Anecdotes—Insanity[23]
III.Vices, and Disagreeable or Dangerous Habits[50]
IV.Speed and Endurance—Carnivorous Horses—Horseflesh as Food—Horsebaiting[66]
V.Primitive State of Wild Horses—The Steppes[86]
VI.The Centaur—The Mongols and Calmucks—A Russian Taboon[100]
VII.The Cossacks—The Circassians—The Mamelukes[131]
VIII.Bela—A Story of the Caucasus[150]
IX.Runjeet Singh’s Famous Horse Lylee—Anecdotes—Persian Horses[179]
X.Arabian Horses [194]
XI.Feral Horses of America—Indians and Gauchos[204]

CHAPTER I
DOMESTICATION OF THE HORSE—HORSE FURNITURE—VARIOUS BREEDS—BLOOD HORSES—PONIES.