138 THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



went his rounds, and the horse, finding his master 

 had no further intentions of going to bed, got up and 

 stood by the spear all night. My groom often lies 

 down between the legs of my stallions, which then 

 walk round him inquiringly and caressingly, appar- 

 ently pleased at his confidence. 



Mr. R. Fitzroy Cote, a considerable author, in his 

 ' Peruvians at Home,' says that at the Lima bull- 

 fights all the horses permitted to enter the arena 

 must be of pure Arab blood, and owing to their 

 sagacity and the agility of their riders they seldom 

 fail to escape the bull's horns. Mr. Cote was not 

 writing up the Arab horse, and only mentions him 

 incidentally ; but doubtless the Peruvians had dis- 

 covered his wonderful powers of twisting and turn- 

 ing, which have been illustrated in his boar-hunting 

 in India. 



The great traveller J. S. Buckingham, who at 

 one time commanded a ship which made a long stay 

 at each of the great marts of trade in the Persian 

 Gulf, in giving an account of the trade thereto India, 

 and explaining the easy mode in which horses might 

 thence be shipped, says that it was the usual thing 

 for Arab horses to sleep standing, and to do so for 

 years in succession, without ever lying down except 

 when sick. 



' Bruni ' points out, on the authority of Mr. 

 W. G. Hughes of Texas, that the foundation stock 

 of the celebrated Mexican mustangs was the Moorish 

 horses (Barbs) turned loose by Cortes. Desiring to 



