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The Karaheer Usbec breed, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Samarkand and Shur-Subhs, is in the highest 

 estimation, and 



The Kataghan breed of Bunduz is hardy though 

 under- sized, but considered far superior to the Kir- 

 guise, by which we apprehend the white and black 

 woolly-haired races are to be understood. 



The Meros^ small sized horses, we take to be the 

 same as the Toorkee or Usbekee, bred about Balkh 

 in Bokhara; they are strong, hardy, and subdi- 

 vided into three breeds, and are sold for prices vary- 

 ing from <£ 5 to £ 20 sterling. But these pony 

 forms, commonly called Yahoos^ do not strictly 

 belong to the bay stock, but to the small mountain 

 races we shall revert to in the sequel. We now pass 

 on to the east side of the Indus, where, until the 

 Mahommedan conquest, the Persian, Arabian, or 

 bay type was rarely or never seen, where it has 

 never thriven, even under Moslem masters, and is 

 now only risen to a proper standard of height, and 

 improved to an equality with the better class of 

 horses of Western Asia, since the Hon. East India 

 Company has established breeding studs for mount- 

 ing its numerous and formidable native cavalry. 



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Beyond the Indus we still find the bay stock of 

 Western Asia, but not the horse of the people, and 

 only perceptible because it was introduced by con- 

 querors, is still perpetually imported, and for several 



