INDEX. 



Aahmes I, 215 



Abdul Kadir, 167, 206 



Abeyan strain, 169 



Abraham, had no horses, 204 



Abyssinia, ass of, 52 



Acarnania, horses of, 302 



Achaia, tombs in, 293 



Achean horses, dun-coloured, 110 



Acheans, 110, 251, 289; horses of, 

 285; use bits, 473 



Achen, Sultans of, 142; kept high- 

 class horses, 142 



Achilles, 218, 294; horses of, 110 



Adamnan, abbot, 418 



Aden, horses exported from, 147 



Adham (colour), black and brown, 178 



Adhils, king of Sweden, his horses, 

 118 



Adrastus, first of the Danaans to drive 

 a chariot, 286 ; his horse Arion, 285 



Adustion, 372 



Aediles, 307 



Aelian, account of horse, and ele- 

 phant, 153; describes Indian horses, 

 t&.; on Venetian horses, 104 



Aelius Gallus, expedition into Arabia, 

 213 



Aeneas, horses of, 290 



Aeschylus, 199 



Aetna, city of, 296 



Aetnaean steed, 296 



Aetolia, horses of, 302 



Afghanistan, horses of, 447 



Africa, horses of, 184 



African, blood, 373; horses, 312 



Agamemnon, 112 



Agasse, his drawing of Lord Morton's 

 quagga, 77 



Ageladas, the sculptor, 295 



Agher, Co. Westmeath, 413 



Agricultural Society, Eoyal, 386 



Agriculture, Irish Department of, 405 



Agrigentum, white horses at, 105 



Ahmar, bay, 177 ; denotes a European, 

 178 



Alba, 393 



Albino horses, 142 



Alby Hall, 384 



R. H. 



Aleppo, 176, 384; Darley Arabian 



obtained there, 188 

 Alexander the Great, 153, 253, 306; 



his political genius, 220 

 Alexandria, 220; its library, 220 

 Ali, his charger, Egyptian in origin, 



212 



Alix, 342 

 Al-Khamseh, 205, 381; names of, 



166; origin of, 167; original stock, 



still in North Africa, 207 ; strains 



freely mixed, 170; sub-strains of,t&.; 



colours of, ib. ; the strains of, 165 ; 



unknown in North Africa, 247 

 Almaine, the, 337; High, 377 

 Alsace, horses of, 325 

 Altai Mountains, 27, 135 

 Altamira, cave of, 87 

 Alvarado, 269; joins Cortes, 269 

 Alzada, of Pampas, 262 

 Amasis, 244 

 Amazon, 384 

 Ambacti, of Gauls, 317 

 Amblere, 359 



Amblers, Celdones and Asturcones, 258 

 America, 4 ; fossil horses of, 8 ; North, 



feral horses of, 440 ; horses of, 265 ; 



South, horses of, 261, 271 

 American, thoroughbreds, 385; trot- 

 ting horse, 464 

 Ammon, oasis of, 239, 511; shrine 



of, 222; temple of, 238 

 Anatolia, horses of, 188 

 Anazah, 169; horses so called, in 



Syria, 182; stallions most prized, 



183; tribes, 161; their migration, 



161 ; occasionally have black horses, 



177 

 Anchises, horses of, 290; mares of, 



291 



Anchitherium, 6 

 Anchorites, Irish, 418 

 Andalusia, horses of, 258, 259, 323, 



387 ; colours of, 257-8 

 Andalusian type, supposed in Conne- 



mara, 403 

 Angles, 334, 335; begin to ride, 330; 



not able to ride, 353 



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