INDEX 



515 



Atavism, 76 



Athlone, 83 



Athy, priory of, burnt, 412 



Atteschi, of Arabia, 161 



Atymon, 98 



Augeas, 251 



Australia, feral horses of, 431; wild 



horses of, 18 

 Australian, race-horses, colours of, 



441 ; thoroughbreds, 385 

 Austria, horses of, 345; ponies of, 



845 

 Auvergne, horses of, 823 ; colour of, 



ib. 

 Avaris, capital of Hyksos, 230 

 Avebury, Lord, horse, late in Britain, 



92 

 Avilius Teres, the charioteer, 312 

 Azara, 8, 9, 125, 152, 262, 428, 434 

 Azov, Sea of, 126; siege of, 80 

 Aztec emiiire, 270 



Babylonia, horses of, 161, 198 

 Babylonian monuments, horse on, 235 

 Bactrians, 157, 192 ; furnish horsemen 



but no chariots to Xerxes, 152; 



supply camels, 199 

 Badius, 291 

 Bagdad, 161, 162; horse, compared 



with Syrian, 186; horses of, 184; 



Pasha, horses of, 183 

 Baguals, 18, 429; Pampas horses, 262 

 Bai-chataine, 484 

 Baines, Mr, his journey, 66 

 Baio, 291 

 Balances, 210 

 Balas, 'bald,' 828 

 Balboa, 269; his death, 270 

 Bald-faced charger, 328 

 Bald Galloway, 882 

 Balkan, horses in, 105 

 Baluchistan, horses of, 159, 447 

 Balzano, 378 

 Barb, 323; crossed with Yorkshire 



cart-mares, 386; described, 249; 



Button's, 248-9, 381-2 

 Barbarian, 877 

 Barbary horses, 248, 376 

 Baroda, 158 

 Barra, ponies of, 18 

 Basclenses, 388 

 Bas-Medoc, horses of, 324 

 Basques, 388, 389 

 Basra, 167 



Bas-reliefs, 194; Hittite, 215 

 Bateman, Mr, 92 

 Bath, Wife of, 859 

 Battak, ponies of, 141, 156 ; colours 



of, 141, 156; mouse-grey, 142, with 



dorsal stripe, ib. 



Battle, of Arbela, 304; of the Boyne, 

 418; of Crecy, 359; of Falkirk, 

 356-7 ; of Hastings, 354 ; of Leuctra, 

 300 ; of Poictiers, 338 ; of Toulouse, 

 332 



Battus, king of Cyrene, 238 



Bavaria, horses of, 344 ; their docility, 

 ib. 



Bay, 193, 258, 261, 262; chief colour 

 of Kuhailan, 174; Cleveland, 886; 

 colour, 156, 302; colour, origin of, 

 434; colour of the MarkhamArabian, 

 378; horse, 359; horse, in Iliad, 

 289 ; horse, of Diomede, 291 ; horses, 

 173, 211, 357-8; inherent in North 

 African stock, 187; of Kuhailan 

 breed, 178; offspring from bay stal- 

 lion and chestnut mares, 374 ; origin 

 of the various terms for, 291 ; stock, 

 of Libya, 248; the best colour, 175; 

 with black points, 170; bays, 385; 

 numerous in Kuhailan, 169 



Bay Malton, 881 



Bayeux tapestry, 354 



Beards, of Mauri, 240 



Becbuanaland, 59 



Beddard, Mr, 5, 200 



Bede, 330, 354 



Bedford, Duke of, 26, 44 



Bedouins, 164 



Beetewk, breed of, 351 



Behring's Straits, 10 



Belgic tribes of Britain, 351, 393 



Belgium, horses of, 341 



Belisarius, 827; his charger, 327-8 



Bells, on horses, 195 



Benat-el-Ahwaj strain, 207 



Bend Or, 159; skull of, 11, 470 



Beowulf, 120, 344 



Berberah, 58 



Berenger, Richard, 384 ; on Godolphin 

 Barb, 884 



Berkshire, White Horse of, 353 



Bernese Jura, 345 



Bernie, shirt of mail, 381 



Berwick, Duke of, 882 



Bevan, Prof. A. A., 146 



Beverley, chariot at, 510 



Bhotan, 153, 156 ; ponies of, 134 



Bidden, Mr Herman, 870 



Bidder, Mr G. P., 283 



Bidets, 824 



Bidwell, Mr E., 506 ; on Abyssinian 

 zebra, 58 



Biedma, Hernandez de, 273 



Bigourdan, horse, 822 



Bison, 9, 428; in Paeonia, colour of, 

 300 



Bit, Assyrian, 195; invention of, 474; 

 not used by Arab, 176; not used by 



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