Photo by Clarence H ailey, St John s Wood and Newmarket. 



CHAPTER X. 



Gibraltar Malta Duke of York Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh Cairo 

 Colonel Valentine Baker General Grenfell Horses in Egypt Cey- 

 lon and its Planters Breaking a Jibber The Spanish Mail Tubbing 

 Singapore Mr Harry Abrams Horses from Western Australia 

 Horsebreaking Savage Horses Wood Flooring for Stables. 



TIRED of inaction we packed up the breaking bag, saddle 

 box, and the old trunk, and sailed in the autumn of 

 1887 to Gibraltar, where I had a class composed of the 

 officers of the garrison waiting for me, thanks to the kindness 

 of Major Crookenden of the Royal Artillery, who had sent a 

 flattering account of my doings at Woolwich to his brother 

 gunners on the Rock. I saw several beautiful Spanish mules 

 at Gibraltar. The horses and ponies were a poor lot, being 

 mostly Barbs, which look like under-bred and weedy Arabs. 

 From careful inquiries made there, at Malta and in Egypt, I 

 would say that the horses of Northern Africa are fully 3 stone 

 inferior to the true Sons of the Desert. Though useful slaves, 



