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will live where other horses would perish. The 

 great traveller, Captain Wood (J.N.), says the 

 same. 



Colonel Ramsay says that the Parsees give im- 

 mense prices for high-caste Arabs, and that Sir 

 Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy has superb English carriage- 

 horses, but they cannot stand work in the Bombay 

 climate. That is what Mr. Carwardine, a well- 

 known Australian stock -owner, tells me of the 

 Kimberley climate in North -Western Australia — 

 that only Arabs can stand work there. Colonel 

 Ramsay also describes the funeral of a grandee 

 of Spain at Valencia, where ' there were some 

 splendid turn-outs — Arabs of the purest breed.' 

 And he speaks of his own regiment, the 14th Light 

 Dragoons, as ' splendidly mounted on Gulf Arabs.' 



Colonel Durand describes a horse he had in India 

 as perfectly untiring, having sinews of steel, a bold, 

 intelligent eye, and feet of flint — he never rode 

 his equal on a hillside — and he goes into ecstasies 

 over his other wonderful qualities, with his 'easy 

 wolfs canter, eating up mile after mile without 

 a check, a present fit for a king.' He says that 

 none but the Arab could show such a combina- 

 tion of courage, fire, endurance, and general temper. 

 His bold heart was the only one he trusted in im- 

 plicitly. 



Mrs. Frances Macnab, in her 'Travels in Morocco,' 

 writes that she could not say that she ever met with 

 a horse in Morocco which had any faults or ill- 



