164 ANIMALS OF THE PAST 
with the prehistoric horses, using them for 
food, as they did almost every animal that fell 
beneath their flint arrows and stone axes. And 
if one may judge from the abundance of bones, - 
the horses must have roamed about in bands, — 
just as the horses escaped from civilization — 
roam, or have roamed, over the pampas of i 
South America and the prairies of the West. — 
The horse was just as abundant in North — 
America in Pleistocene time as in Europe sf 
but there is no evidence to show that it was — 
contemporary with early man in North Amer-— 
ica, and, even were this the case, it is generally 
believed that long before the discovery of — 
America the horse had disappeared. And yet, 
so plentiful and so fresh are his remains, and — 
so much like those of the mustang, that the — 
late Professor Cope was wont to say that it 
almost seemed as if the horse might have 
lingered in Texas until the coming of the white 
man. And Sir William Flower wrote: “ There © 
is a possibility of the animal having still ex-_ 
isted, in a wild state, in some parts of the con-— 
tinent remote from that which was first visited : 
by the Spaniards, where they were certainly — 
