CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGES 



General View of the Field Traversed 1-23 



CHAPTER II. 



ORIGINAL HABITAT OF THE HORSE. 



No indications that the horse was originally wild The steppes of High Asia 

 and Arabia not tenable as his original home Color not sufficient evi- 

 dence Impossibility of horses existing in Arabia in a wild state No 

 horses in Arabia until 356 A.D. Large forces of Armenian, Median 

 and Cappadocian cavalry employed more than one thousand seven 

 hundred years B.C. A breed of white race horses Special adaptability 

 of the Armenian country to the horse Armenia a horse-exporting 

 country before the Prophet Ezekiel Devotion of the Armenian people 

 to agricultural and pastoral pursuits through a period of four thousand 

 years All the evidences point to ancient Armenia as the center from 

 which the horse was distributed 24-35 



CHAPTER III. 



EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF HORSES. 



First evidences of horses in Egypt about 1700 B.C. Supported by Egyp- 

 tian records and history The Patriarch Job had no horses Solo- 

 mon's great cavalry force organized Arabia as described by Strabo at 

 the beginning of our era No horses then in Arabia Constantius sends 

 two hundred Cappadocian horses into Arabia A.D. 356 Arabia the last 

 country to be supplied with horses The ancient Phrenician merchants 

 and their colonies Hannibal's cavalry forces in the Punic Wars 

 Distant ramifications of Phoenician trade and colonization Commerce 

 reached as far as Britain and the Baltic Probable source of Britain's 

 earliest horses 36-50 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE ARABIAN HORSE. 



The Arabian, the horse of romance The horse naturally foreign to Arabia 

 Superiority of the camel for all Arabian needs Scarcity of horses in 

 Arabia in Mohammed's time Various preposterous traditions of Arab 

 horsemanship The Prophet's mythical mares Mohammed not in any 

 sense a horseman Early English Arabians the Markham Arabian 

 The alleged Royal Mares The Darley Arabian The Godolphin 

 Arabian The Prince of Wales' Arabian race horses Mr. Blunt's pil- 

 grimage to the Euphrates His purchases of so-called Arabians Deyr 



