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7. " The endurance of the horse is great, and equaled 

 only, perhaps, by that of the camel. The elephant either 

 breaks down under his own weight or becomes infuriated 

 when goaded beyond his accustomed powers; the ox, 

 though extremely patient, suffers in his feet or becomes 

 faint through hunger ; but the horse toils on unflinchingly, 

 till not unfrequently he drops down through mere ex- 

 haustion. The mares of the Bedouin Arabs will often 

 travel fifty miles without stopping ; and they have been 

 known to go a hundred and twenty miles in extreme cases, 

 with hardly a rest, and with no food. In 1804 an Arab 

 horse at Bangalore, in the presidency of Madras, ran four 

 hundred miles in the course of four successive days, and 

 without showing any symptoms of more than ordinary 

 fatigue. 



8. " The affection of the horse is sometimes displayed 

 in joyous gambols and familiar caresses like those of the 

 dog, though, like the man in the fable, who was em- 

 braced by an ass, one would willingly dispense with 

 such boisterous manifestations. We are informed, in the 

 ' Sporting Magazine,' that a gentleman in Buckingham- 

 shire had in his possession, in December, 1793, a three- 

 year-old colt, a dog, and three sheep, which were his con- 

 stant attendants in all his walks. When the parlor-win- 

 dow, which looked into the field, was open, the colt had 

 often been known to leap through it, go up to and caress 

 his master, and then leap back to his pasture." 



9. Lamartine, in his " Pilgrimage to the Holy Land," 

 records a story that a son of a sheik related to him, which 

 shows the tender affection existing between the Arabs and 

 their horses : " An Arab and his tribe had attacked a cara- 

 van of Damascus in the desert. The victory was com- 

 plete, and the Arabs were already occupying themselves 

 in arranging their rich booty, when the cavalry of the 



