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ASIATIC AND NORTH AFRICAN HORSES. 



seems to have no relationship with ponies of any other 

 countr}' except, possibly, with those of Sumatra and 

 Java. The Burma pony is sometimes called a Pegu 

 pony. In the vast extent of country from Rangoon to 

 Mandalay, there are no good native ponies bred. 



The body of the Burma pony has great depth in 

 comparison to its length. For a saddle-pony, he has a 



Fig. 603. — Cabuli gelding (14.2). 



nice head and neck, and fair shoulders ; but his croup 

 is too drooping. He is much better " topped " than 

 he is below his elbows and stifles. His fore-arms and 

 gaskins are poor, and he has sickle hocks. As might 

 be expected, Burma ponies, of which this one is rather 

 a good specimen, are strong for their height, but slow. 



Sumatra Ponies (Figs. 439 and 605). — While staying 

 at Singapore in 1888, I saw a good deal of the Battak 

 ponies which w^ere used for cab work in that town, where 



