POLO IN ENGLAND 265 



claim to much admifation, and even the best would compare 

 very unfavourably with the worst English or Indian polo 

 pony. 



The stick used by the Japanese seems much the same as 

 that described by the Byzantine historian Cinnamus, whom I 

 have quoted in a former chapter, and there is but little doubt that 

 the Japanese must have got the game through Corean Tartars, 

 for, whether called 'chaugan' by the Persians, 'dakiu' by the 

 Japanese, ' kanja-i-bazee ' by the Munnipoorees, or ' polo ' by us, 

 in whatever form it may be played, it seems inseparably con- 

 nected with the hitting of a ball with a stick of some sort from 

 horseback. 



