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Hungary,' says that all along the Turkish frontier, 

 and especially in the upper military borderland, a 

 small race of horses of Barbary origin is found well 

 suited to those rugged and rocky countries, which 

 corroborates the statements that the Hungarian 

 horses are largely indebted for their excellence to 

 Arab blood. 



Count Henry Kraslnski, a Polish soldier, in the 

 ' History of the Cossacks of the Ukraine,' says that 

 their horses are small in make, but extremely vigor- 

 ous, and proof to all kinds of fatigue, clear all diffi- 

 culties of the ground, carry their riders everywhere 

 with facility, and are, like their masters, content with 

 the most meagre fare ; and he describes them as 

 hovering round the enemy like a vapoury cloud, 

 augmenting, fading away, or dissipating entirely 

 again, to form into shape when required. This 

 fortifies the accounts I have given of the Arabs of 

 Tunis in the third Crusade, and of the Arabs of 

 Algiers recently in the time of General Daumas. 



These Ukraine horses are Eastern, and, if not 

 pure Arabs, have been improved by Arabs, and 

 are of a kindred race. Count Krasinski states 

 that at the great annual fair in the government of 

 Volhynia 100,000 horses are often to be seen from 

 all parts of Russia, Poland, Austria, and Turkey, 

 and even Persia. The Kurdish mountains as well as 

 Asia Minor were celebrated for their breed of horses 

 in the time of the prophet Ezekiel (xxvii. 14). 



In Mr. E. H. Parker's ' Thousand Years of the 



