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Ai-ab with native blood, itself already largely of Arabian origin. 

 Furthermore, piebalds and skewbalds are not at all uncommon 

 amongst Indian country-breds, which, as we have seen, are the 

 outcome of crossing the Upper Asiatic horse with the Arab, 

 and on such the trumpeters of the native cavalry regiments 

 are usually mounted. As there is no question of the large 



Fig. 56. Tangum of Tibet. 



amount of Arabian blood in such animals, just as in the ponies 

 of Java, we are all the more justified in ascribing the existence 

 of piebalds amongst the tangums of Tibet to a similar blending 

 of the Mongolian and Arabian stocks. It has also to be borne 

 in mind that the Arab stands the heat in India far better than 

 the horses from the north, a circumstance which renders it all 

 the more likely that in country-bred Indian horses it is largely 

 the Arabian element which survives in a far greater degree 

 than the Upper Asiatic. 



