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INDEX 



Angli, 329, 335, 353 



Anglo-Norman horses, 324 



Angola, 59; zebra of, 55 



Annandale, Mr N., 21 



Antilles, horses from, 269 



Antimachus, 286 



Antimony, 165 



Apis, 222 



Apocalypse, horses of, 209 



Apollo, 286 



Apulia, horses of, 308 



Aquitania, 332 



Arab, blood, 142; merchants, 151; 

 honesty in horse-dealing, 177; horse, 

 5; horses, 161, 344; in Irak, 161; 

 of coarse type, have large hock 

 callosities, 250, probably cross-bred, 

 ih.; spoiled by crossing, 175; strains 

 inferior, 173; three kinds of, 168; 

 with large hock callosities, 38; with 

 large under-lip, 38 



Arabia, 145; horses exported from, 

 148; its description, 200; no horses, 

 201; no mules, ib.; no swine, ih.; 

 no wild horses in, 165; three kinds 

 of horses in, 161; Central, 161; 

 lack of food in, ih. ; Peninsula of, 

 never had wild horses, 207; Turkish, 

 horses of, 182; sent to India and 

 Constantinoi^le, 182 



Arabian, 163, 381 ; Darley, 382 ; Mark- 

 ham, 364, 378; horse, 164; defini- 

 tion of, 161; described, 171, 180; 

 differs from Iraki stallion, 180 ; 

 horses, colours of, 177-9; height 

 of, 173; inferior strains of, 173; 

 in Irak, Syria, etc., 180 



Arabs, Auazah tribes of, 161; con- 

 quests of, 213 ; do not contribute 

 horses to Xerxes' host, 198 ; in Su- 

 matra, 145 ; method of tracing pedi- 

 gree, 187 ; predilection for white 

 or grey horses from religious mo- 

 tives, 186 ; supply camel corps to 

 Xerxes, 199 ; their conquests due to 

 the acquisition of the horse, 213; 

 truth of, 168; reluctant to sell mares, 

 ih.; tribes of interior deserts, 164 



Araxes, river, 129 



Arbela, battle of, 304 



Arblast, 140 



Arcadia, horses of, 301 



Arcelin, M., 83 



Arcesilas, 253 



Archers, horse, 194, 196; Scythians, 



482 

 Arches, on forehead, 445, 452 

 Archipelago, Indian, horses in, 144; 

 Islam in, 145; horses not indigenous 

 in, 145 



Aretas, Nabataean king, 202 



Argolis, 285 ; horses of, 302 



Ariege, horses of, 323, 398 



Arion, the horse of Adrastus, 285 



Aristophanes, 296 



Aristotle, 296, 300; describes wild 

 mules, 49 ; on horses, 188 



Aries, 321; races at, 330 



Armada, 402 



Armagh, brooches found near, 396 



Armature, of Irish, 389 



Armenia, 132 ; horses of, 18, 192, 446 



Armenian horses, in modern times, 

 193 



Armour, 336, 355, 389; discarded, 

 306 ; horse, 132 ; not worn by Irish, 

 388; Persian, 188 



Arras, chariot burial at, 97, 510 



Arrian, 190, 400 



Arrow-shooting, 117 



Arrows, poisoned, 140 



Aryans, drive chariots, do not ride, 

 151; kept horses, ib.; sacrificed 

 horses, ib. 



Ashkar, chestnut, 178 



Asia, horses of, 306; Central, 164; 

 Western, horses of, 160 sqq. ; 

 Western, origin of horses of, 188 



Asia Minor, 132, 199 



Asinus, 12 



Ass, African, 52; differences from 

 Asiatic, 53; Asiatic, 12; African, 

 ih.; Somali, ih.; domestic, in Egypt, 

 218; hybrid, 37; hair of, ih.; hy- 

 brids, 35, 36, 39 ; in Homeric Greece, 

 112; shoulder stripe of, 450; So- 

 mali wild, 53-4; wild, 208, 476; 

 Asiatic, habits of, 50; capture of, in 

 Assyria, 49; domesticated by Arabs, 

 52 ; in Scythia, 50; not so swift as 

 horses, 50; old stallion emasculates 

 young ones, 50 ; west of Nile, 56 ; 

 asses, 7, 47, 204; Asiatic, division of, 

 43 ; Asiatic, two species of, 52 ; 

 domesticated, in Western India, 47; 

 draw Indian chariots, 192; of Job, 

 203 ; of Persia, 149 ; sacrificed to 

 war-god, 150; used by Carmanians, 

 49; wild, 43 s(/5., 202; wild, inDzun- 

 garia, 43; wild, in Syria, 49; with 

 horns, 56; without horns, 56; with 

 six lumbar vertebrae, 42 

 Assouan, 238 



Assur-bani-pal hunting, 49 

 Assyria, wild asses of, 49 



Assyrian, empire, 230; horses, 194; 



horses, origin of, 198 

 Asturcones, 258, 388 

 Asturia, horses of, 258, 266 

 Atahualpa, the Inca king, 271 



