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INDEX 



Libyans, 472; bits, liorse, 129, 473; 

 of horn, 93 ; of bone, of bronze, ib. ; 

 Mongolian, 139 ; not used by medie- 

 val Irish, 389; of bronze, 98; used by 

 Acheans, 473 ; used by Assyrians, 

 196; used for Asiatic horses, 473, 

 480 



Black, 258; colour of Ariege horses, 

 323 ; found in inferior Arab strains, 

 173 ; not original colour, 261 ; Heb- 

 ridean ponies, 402, 512; Highland 

 ponies, 402, 512; horse, 346, 397; 

 horse, syn. of Great Horse, 366; 

 Irish ponies, 401 ; horses, 177, 210, 

 250, 335, 341, 342, 344, 346, 347, 

 357-8, 369, 397 ; as cavalry mounts, 

 368; come from West, 133; in 

 France, 325; in Greece, 292; in 

 Morocco, 248 ; Jelfon strain, 181 ; 

 large, 335; not pure Al-Khamseh, 

 181; of Germany, Holland, Flan- 

 ders, Friesland, Denmark, 331; re- 

 sult of mixture, 186 



Black Agnes, 463 



Blanford, Dr, 426 



Blaze, 384; on face, 327; on fore- 

 head, 374, 465 



Bleeding Childers (or Bartlett's Chil- 

 ders), 384 



Blood, 386; esteemed above all things 

 by the Arabs, 176 



Blow-fly, 9 



Blundeville, Thomas, 318, 336, 371, 

 376 ; on colours of horse, 372-3 ; on 

 English horse-breeding, 363; on 

 Flemish horses, 337; on Friesland 

 horse, 340; on Spanish jennet, 259, 

 340; on Turk horse, 189 



Blunt, Lady Anne, 161, 162, 208 



Blunt, Mr W. S., 162, 165, 166, 206, 

 445 ; doctrine of origin of Kohl 

 breed, 207-8; on Kadish horses, 

 163 ; on white horses, 186 



Boats, 115 



Bohemia, 345 



Bombay, 149 



Bone-caves, of Britain and Belgium, 89 



Bones, burnt, in tumulus, 399; horse, 

 in tumulus, 398; metacarpal and 

 metatarsal, 152; of horse, 84, 85; 

 of horse found with his master, 

 354; of reindeer, 84 



Bonte quagga, 476 



Book of Kelts, 390 



Boots, Norman, 354 



Bordeaux, 333 



Boreas, sire of horses, 290 



Bos, gaurus, 4; grunniens, ib. 



Bosnia, ponies of, 345 



Botletle, river, 66 



Boudissy, a Coptic king, 56 



Boulonnais, 2 



Bows, 240, 481 



Boyne, battle of the, 414 



Bracelets, on horses, 373 



Breastplates, for horses, 130, 132 



Breeding, not understood by Arabs, 

 176 



Brenda, 463 



Brennus, Celtic king, 316 



Breton pony, 3 



Breul, M., 87 



Bridegroom's gifts, 115 



Bridle, 479 ; Assyrian, described, 195; 

 bridles, 254 ; not used by Numidians, 

 ib. ; made of rush, 240 ; Mongolian, 

 139 ; on Irish crosses, 390 



Brigandines, 273, 274 



Brighton, 'Elephant-bed' at, 11 



Britain, 393; Belgic tribes of, 351; 

 no horses in, 353 



British, charioteers, 98; horses, on 

 the Continent, 361 ; Isles, horses of, 

 352 



Britons, use chariots, 95 



Brittany, horses of, 324 



Broncho, 264 



Bronze Age, axe of, 390; stations in 

 Switzerland, 92 



Brooch, from Navan Rath, 396 ; leaf- 

 shaped, 396; penanular, used in 

 Ireland, 396 ; brooches, Gallic, 394 ; 

 gold, 248; La Tene, 396; penanular, 

 396 



Brood mares, in Thrace, 306 



Brown, found in inferior Arab strains, 

 173; not in Al-Khamseh, 383 



Brumbies, 18 



Brunchorst, Dr, of Bergen, 120 



Brunn, Mr Daniel, 124 ; his book, 24 



Bucephalus, bred in Thessaly, 304 



Bucket, at Sesto Calende, 103 



Buckingham, Earl of, 379 



Buckley, Mr, on Chapman's zebra, 66 



Buenos Ayres, 262 



Buffalo, 140 



Bullock, plough, cart, 413, 414 



Burchell zebra, 20, 59, 68, 445; de- 

 scribed, 66 



Burckhardt, on Arab horses, 162 



Burgundian horses, 318, 344 



Burgundians. 327; conquered by 

 Franks, 329-30 



Burial customs, 128 



Burial of horses with their masters, 

 128 



Buriat, horseman, 135 ; women, 139 



Burmese ponies, 141, 448 



Burnt Njal, saga of, 122; horse-fight, 

 122 



