i6o THE ARAB THE HORSE OF THE FUTURE 



course Barbs), and got special permission for their 

 safe transport through France and Spain. 



Edward III. was a great warrior. Did he not 

 know the value of the creature he purchased ? 



Major Butler in his 'Great Lone Land,' describes a 

 wonderful little horse of the prairies whose endurance 

 could not be excelled day by day. He feared that he 

 must give out ; but not a bit of it ! he still held gamely 

 on, seldom travelling less than fifty miles a day, 

 nothing to eat but the grass, and no time to eat but 

 the frosty night. These prairie horses were descended 

 from Spanish importations — Andalusians, i.e., Arabs 

 or Barbs. 



Count Rziewuski (Russian) says that Asiatic horses 

 are of one family, different from the European horses, 

 except the English, which have much Arab blood, and 

 that Napoleon did his best to improve the horses in 

 France, but they were /ar inferior X.q English horses. 

 This was in the middle of last century. The Count 

 could not say that now. The Count also stated that 

 the Poles had spared no expense in introducing Arab 

 stallions, and gives many instances. Why were the 

 English horses of that day superior to the French? 

 Plainly, because up to that time the English had used 

 the Arab very much more than the French, as the 

 Stud-Book shows and as Count Rziewuski states. 

 Why are they inferior now ? Because they have 

 fallen off from the use of the Arab. 



M. Chateaubriand, in his ' Travels in Greece,' 

 testifies to the hardihood of the Arab horse, and 



