244 EAST INDIAN RACES. 



The Cattywarr breed is of superior blood and at 

 least equal beauty with the Cutch, having gentle 

 dispositions ; and the rare dun-coloured breed, with 

 black stripes like a tiger, is particularly valued, and 

 competes with true Arabians. 



But the mode of feeding horses, among the na- 

 tives, shows a system of quacking which does not 

 trust to what nature has prescribed; they are, it 

 seems, often fed at night on boiled peas, no doubt 

 gram, which is a kind of vetch, with sugar and 

 butter ; others employ lentiles, or small beans, boiled 

 with a sheep's head, or wheaten flour with molasses, 

 adding from time to time messals, or balls composed 

 of pepper, curcumi, garlick, coriander ; even arrack, 

 opium, bang, or hemp-seed, mixed with molasses ! 

 Such a system, with the exception of gram, we 

 understand, is totally rejected in the Hon. Com- 

 pany's studs in Bahar, where at first the horses 

 reared were rather under-sized and afterwards wanted 

 bone ; but by attention and perseverance in the selec- 

 tion of brood-mares and stallions, a splendid race of 

 Indian horses is at last obtained, and fast increasing. 

 Formerly, our cavalry in India was chiefly mounted 

 on the Jungle Tazzee race, and on purchases ob- 

 tained from the fairs in Thibet, at Hurdwar, and 

 other places, but the practice is fast decreasing, and 

 the stud at Hissar is now, we are told, unrivalled.* 



* The Coza/kee is regularly imported, and therefore not an 

 Indian breed; and the Kaqthi comes from Thibet. The Ghoonts, 

 Pickarrows, and Bhooteah mountain ponies do not belong to 

 the bay stock. 



