HUNGARIAN HORSES. 



533 



times the amount they cost, to the British Government 

 for service in South Africa during the late war. We are 

 ah aware that mounting our men on these inefficient 

 animals was the cause of the death of thousands of our 

 soldiers. This misfortune could have been obviated by 

 making the selection from ordinary Hungarian farmers' 

 horses, and, even then, the buyer could have made many 

 tens of thousands of pounds by the transaction. There 



Fig. 534. — Hungarian officer's charger. 



were three English veterinary surgeons living in Hungary 

 at that time, but none of them was consulted by our 

 Arm}^ Remount Department with respect to the purchase 

 of remounts, on which subject they had of course much 

 expert knowledge. Fig. 537, which is the reproduc- 

 tion of a photograph I took in South Africa in 1901, 

 shows a fairly useful Hungarian remount, which was a 

 rare exception among the equine rubbish that was sent 

 out. He was rather straight on his pasterns. 



