INDEX 



537 



Val d'Arno, fossil horses of, 143 



Vandals, 334, 835 



Vandyck, his portrait of Cromwell, 

 366 



Vanir, 118 



Varni (Werini), not horsemen, 353 



Vases, Greek, 293 ; show chariots, 252 



Vedic, horses, 151 ; Indians, 157 



Vegetius, 319, 327, 341 



Veneti, 104 ; of Armorica, 401 ; their 

 horses, 104 



Venn, Dr J., 120, 412, 452 



Venn, Mr J. A., 121, 452 



Vertebrae, lumbar, in tarpan, 42 ; in 

 Prejvalsky horse, ib. 



Vertragus, the Celtic dog, 398, 400 



Vesuvius, battle of, 100 



Vez^re, cave of, 85 



Victoria, feral horses of, 430 



Viking period, 354 



Vikings of Western Isles, 416 



Virgil, Polidore, 359 



Virginia, wild horses in, 430 



Voice, of dzeggetai, 52 ; of kiang, 46, 

 52 ; of other asses, 52 ; of horse, 

 477 ; of Irak stallion, 472 ; of Kadish, 

 471 ; of Kuhailan different from 

 Kadish, 180 ; of Libyan horse, 471 ; 

 of onager, 46 ; of tarpan, 31 



Waddell, Mr L. A., 156 



Waggon, four-wheeled, Styria, 315 ; 

 waggons, Scythian, drawn by oxen, 

 127, 482 



Wahlberg zebra, 436 



Walers, 47 



Wall, Great, of China, 140 



Wallace, Mr J. H., 385, 430 



Wall-eyed horses, 349 



Walwich Bay, 65 



War-chariots, 351 ; used against Pyr- 

 rhus, 307 



Ward zebra, 64, 508 



War-horse, 203 ; typical, of Byzantine 

 period, 328 ; Cyrenian, 253 ; of 

 Lower empire, 329 



Warriors slain at funerals, 128 



Waziris, horses of, 159, 447 



Wells, ICl; dug, Arabia, 207 



Werini (same as Varni), 329, 335, 354 



Western Asia, horses of, 188 



Westmeath, 413; hunters, 414 



West Wind imjiregnates Lusitanian 

 mares, 257 



Wheel, 483 scjq. ; four-spoked, six- 

 spoked, eight -spoked, 225, 228 

 spoked, 484 ; origin of, 485 

 wheels, 223, 224; block, 483-4 

 488; chariot, 95; eight-spoked, 315 

 eight-spoked, on Irish chariots, 390 



eight-spoked, on Irish crosses, ib.; 

 tires of, 95; evolution of, 482 



Whip, 479 



White, Arab, 169 ; Arab love of white 

 horses, 178 ; elephant, sanctity of, 

 105; feet, 181, 250, 373; feet, in 

 Kuhailan, 173 ; horse, drowned in 

 Gyndes, 191 ; horse, in Apocalypse, 

 210; horse, of Berkshire, 353; horse, 

 of St Columba, 419 ; legs, 374 ; star 

 or blaze, 374 ; stars, 376 ; worn by 

 Tartars on New Year's Day, 134; 

 white horses, 120, 135, 174, 289, 294, 

 295, 296, 346, 466 ; among Germans, 

 105, 114, 353; among Scandinavians, 

 105 ; at Agrigentum, 276 ; at Rome, 

 307 ; belong to upper Asia and 

 Europe, 186 ; draw Zeus' chariot, 

 294 ; in Greece, 292 ; in Sicily, 105, 

 278 ; in Thessaly, 301 ; in Thrace, 

 107 ; Julius Caesar drawn by, 307-8 ; 

 of Kublai Kaan, 134; sacrificed, 294; 

 sacrificed by Persians on march, 

 190 ; sanctity of, 105, 186, 187, 294, 

 419; tribute of, 190; wild, 125; 

 used for divination by the Germans, 

 114 



Why Not Royal mare, 382 



Wife of Bath, 359 



Wild ass, 50 ; in Scythia, 125 



Wild horses, 16 ; extermination of, 

 433 ; of North America, 265 ; in 

 Spain, 257,260; not found in Arabia, 

 165, 207 ; variation of colour, 27 ; 

 why destroyed, 428 



Wilde, Sir AV., 391 



William III, charger of, 367 



William, de Sancto Mauro, 355 



Wiltshire sheriff, 356 



Winchester, 356 



Wind, ' Drinkers ' of the, 249 ; West, 

 impregnates Lusitanian mares, 257 



Winter, Dr, his horses, 412 



Wolf, 4, 208, 426; as a brand, 104 



Wolf-dogs {see Dog), 401 



Wollaston, Dr, 457 



Woman, skeleton of, 398; nude, on 

 horseback, 244 



Women, ride on horseback, Libyan, 

 242 



Woodbridge, 368 



Wurtemburg, horses of, 844 



Xanthippus, 395 



Xenophon, 480 ; description of a good 



horse, 298 

 Xerxes, army of, 152; his car, 191; 



Indians in host of Xerxes, 47 ; roll 



of his army, 192 ; sacrifices white 



horses to rivers, ib. 



