THE BARL. lé 
SMALL STOMACH. 
ONE OF THE GREATEST PECULIARITIES in the structure of the horse is the 
stall size of his stomach, which is also of avery simple nature. He is like- 
wise without a gall bladder, showing that the digestion must be continuous 
and not interrupted by distinct intervals, as in the ruminants and carnivora. 
Nature has thus framed this animal, in order that he may be at all times 
able to exert his utmost speed, which he could not do with the mass of 
provender in his stomach which is carried by the cow or sheep. The 
same provision is shown in the udder of the mare, which is not larger 
than that of the goat or sheep. 
All these several characteristics of the horse will be more minutely 
considered under the different heads to which they each belong ; but they 
are here grouped together to give a better general idea of the animal which 
is under examination. 
CHAPTER III. 
THE HORSES OF THE EAST. 
THE BARB—THE EGYPTIAN HORSE—THE HORSES OF DONGOLA AND ABYSSINIA—OTHER 
AFRICAN HORSES—THE MODERN ARAB—THE PERSIAN HORSE—THE TURKISH HORSE 
— OTHER ASIATIC HORSES—THE AUSTRALIAN HORSE. 
For THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS of Oriental varieties of the horse I 
am indebted to the accounts of travellers, having only seen one or two ot 
them, and those only as single specimens, with the exception of the Arab, 
THE BARB. 
THIS KIND is named after the country in which it is found, which is 
rather an extensive one, comprehending the states of Tunis, Tripoli, 
Algiers, Fez, and Morocco, all lying on the northern coast of Africa to the 
west of Egypt. Vegetation is very luxurious in the valleys watered by 
the streams which descend from the Atlas Mountains in their course to 
the Mediterranean, and grass is abundant in the early spring and autumn, 
but in the summer season the great heat burns it all up ; and therefore the 
horse is dependent upon the care of man for fodder during a great part of 
the year. Berenger describes the true Barb as follows :— 
“The fore-hand is long, slender, and badly furnished with mane ; but 
the neck rises distinctly and boldly out of the withers ; the head is small 
and lean; ears, of good size, and well placed; shoulders, light, obliquely 
sloping, and broad ; withers, thin and high; loins, straight and short ; 
flanks and ribs, round, and well developed; haunches, strong; croup, 
somewhat too long; quarters, muscular and full; legs, clean, and the 
tendons clearly marked and separate from the bone ; pasterns, somewhat 
too long and slanting ; feet, sound and of good shape. In size they are 
lower than the Arabs, seldom measuring more than fourteen and a half 
hands, and they have not as much spirit, speed, or endurance, although 
in external things they are perhaps superior to him.” 
The GopoLPHIN ARABIAN, of which the annexed cut is a representation, 
is said to have been imported into France from Barbary, and is supposed 
to have been presented by the Emperor of. Morocco to Louis XIV. as a 
fine barb; but he was thought so little of in Paris that he was set to 
