296 THE KOOMRAH. 



the master, who permitted a sketch and notes to be 

 taken of it at Dominica. 



The Koomrah of the mountains is about ten or 

 ten and a half hands high ; the head broad across 

 the forehead and deep measured to the jowl, is 

 small, short, and pointed at the muzzle, making the 

 profile almost triangular ; instead of a forelock be- 

 tween the ears, down to the eyes the hair is long 

 and woolly; the eyes are small, of a light hazel 

 colour, and the ears large and wide ; the neck thin, 

 forming an angle with the head, and clad with a 

 scanty but long black mane; the shoulder rather 

 vertical and meagre, with withers low, but the croup 

 high and broad ; the barrel large, thighs cat-ham- 

 med, and the limbs clean, but asinine, with the 

 hoofs elongated ; short pasterns, small callosities on 

 the hind-legs, and the tail clothed with short fur for 

 several inches before the long black hair begins. 

 The animal is entirely of a reddish bay colour, with- 

 out streak or mark on the spine, or any white about 

 the limbs. We made our sketch at Portsmouth, and 

 believe it refers to the same animal, which lived for 

 many years, if we are rightly informed, in a pad- 

 dock of the late Lord Grenville's. There was in 

 the British Museum a stuffed specimen exactly 

 corresponding in colour and size, but with a head 

 (possibly in consequence of the taxidermist wanting 

 the real skull) much longer and less in depth. The 

 other specimen, which came from the mountains 

 north of Accra in Guinea, was again entirely simi- 

 lar. We were told that in voice it differed from 



