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stallions are said to be constantly roaming from place to place, 
and compelling the mares to accompany them, whether or not 
the young foals are able to follow, and they are left to die. The 
predominant colours are roan and iron-grey. 
All the horses bred here, both tame and wild, are rather small- 
sized, though generally in good condition, and they are not so 
strong as the horses from the Plata.—Darwin, Journal, 192. 
The Horse was first landed at Buenos Ayres in 1537, and the 
colony being then for a time deserted, it ran wild: in 1580, 
only forty-three years afterwards, one hears of them at the Strait 
of Magellan. The natives of Terra del Fuego are well-stocked 
with horses, each man having six or seven, and all the women 
and even children their own horse.—Darwin, Journal, 233; Ren- 
ger, Natur. Saugth. Paragua, 334. 
The soldiers in Bahia Blanca eat mare’s flesh for food.—Dar- 
win, Journal, 101. 
In Banda Oriental they think it ridiculous to break in or ride 
a mare; they are of no value except for breeding, and, rarely, to 
tread out the wheat from the ear, for which purpose they are 
driven round a circular enclosure where the wheat sheaves are 
strewn. Numbers are slaughtered for the sake of their hides, 
_ although only worth about half-a-crown a-piece.— Darwin, Journ. 
134. 
Darwin gives an interesting description of the breaking in of 
the wild young horses of Banda Oriental.—Journal, 151. 
Horses do not breed on the southern face of the Himalayas, 
but are imported from Thibet.— Munday, Journ. u. 75; Ogilby 
im Royle Himal. i. \xxi. 
Skins of horses are used for cloth, to make churns, &c.-- 
Simpson, Overland Journey, 11. 307. 
The roundish marks are called copper-marked in brown, dap- 
pled in grey horses. These marks become more visible in the 
brown horses when they are in high condition. 
Horses are technically called according to their colours. Bay, 
—Brown, with black mane and tail; some have black legs, they 
are then called bay with black points. Chestnut,—Red brown, 
either dark or light. Brown,—Nearly black: if they have a 
tan mouth they are called brown muzzles. Black. Dun colour. 
Roan, Strawberry,—very red grey. Piebald,—With three colours. 
Skewbald,—Two colours. Cream colour.—The white mark on 
the forehead is a star; if down the face, a blaze. 
