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INDEX 



Nogai Tartars, 127 



Nomads, 202; of Morocco, 242 



Nome, Sethroite, 230 



Norfolk horse, 2 



Noricum, Celts of, 101 



Normandy, 334 



Norman horses, in Ireland, 412 ; sad- 

 dles, 354; war-horses, 355; shields, 

 481; Normans, in Ireland, 354, 

 389 ; introduce heavy horses into 

 England, 354 



Norsemen, 335, 354 



Norse settlers in Iceland, 418 



Northmen, 334 



Norway, 416 ; dun-coloured horses of, 

 465 ; horses of, 119, 347 



Norwegian, ponies, 451-2; stallions, 

 in Faroes, 22 ; stallions, in Iceland, 

 21 



Nose-band, 196, 284 



Nostrils, 185 



Nubia, 2, 56, 219 ; ass of, 52 



Numidia, 309 



Numidian, horse-breeding, 239 ; horse- 

 men, 254, 309 ; horsemen, described, 

 241; kings, 239 



Numidians, Hannibal's, 101 



Nyassaland, 68 



Oaks, the, 441 



Oasis, great, Ammon, Siwa, 511 



Odin rides on Sleipnir, 118, 348 



O'Donovan, the, his shield, 396 



Odysseus, in Egypt, 220 



Oeland, ponies of, 348 



Oestrus, 9 



Olaf, the Peacock, his dog, 419 



Olaus Magnus, 347, 358, 373 



Olbia, coins of, 131 



Oldenburg, horses of, 342, 343 



Oligocene, 7 



Olisipo, 257 



Olive oil, 202 



Olmutz, archbishop of, 345 



Olympia, races at, 276 



Olympic games, 251 



Onager, 12, 36, 45, 46; in Scythia, 



125 ; in Syria, 49 



Onager, indicus, 43, 46 ; hemippus, 46 

 Oncean grove, 286 

 O'Neill, Henry, 390 

 Oppian, 259, 313 

 Orlando, skull of, 470 

 Orlov Trotters, 350 

 Ornaments, 504 

 Orohippus, 6 

 Osages, 429 



Osborn, Prof. H. F., 7, 262, 264, 511 

 Osnabruck, 342 ; breed of hearse horses, 



ib. 



Ossetes, 126 

 Othello, 376 

 Otkell, his Irish thrall, 419; his two 



dun ponies with stripes, 420 

 Ouseley, Sir Gore, 462 ; his mare, 457 

 Owen, Prof., 82; on horse in Egypt, 



215 



Ox, 4, 478 

 Ox-cart, 481, 486 ; in Big-Veda, 151 ; 



Thracian, 105 

 Oxen, Scythian, have no horns, 127 ; 



wild, in Cuba, 271 



Pachynolophus, 6 



Pack-saddle, 199 



Pad of cotton, used as saddle, 177 



Paeonia, bison in, 300 



Paget, Col. A., 58 



Painting of a horse, 293 



Palaeolithic period, horses in, 88 



Palaeotheriidae, 5 



Palestine, horses of, 211 



Palgrave, Mr, on Arab horses, 162 ; 



sanctions illusion that best Arabs 



are grey, 177 

 Pallas, 30, 43, 127 ; description of wild 



horses, 30; on dzeggetai, 44 

 Palm-trees, 161 

 Palmyra, desert of, birthplace of Darley 



Arabian, 384 

 Palmyrene desert, 161 

 Pampas, 8, 428 



Pampas horses, 262 sqq., 446 ; com- 

 pared with horses of western prairies, 



265 



Pampas Indians, 428 

 Panama, 270 

 Panjab, people of, 153 

 Panormus, coins of, 253 

 Panthers, 240 

 Panticapaeum, 130 



Paphlagonia, home of wild mules, 50 

 Paraguay, 10; cattle in, 9; no feral 



horses in, ib. 

 Parana, Baron de, 459 ; his zebra 



hybrids, 463 

 Paricanians, 192 

 Parliament, efforts of, to promote 



horse-breeding, 355 

 Paroas, a serpent, reddish-brown, 300 

 Parthenon, 297 ; horses of, ib. ; of 



Pheidias, ib. 

 Parthian horses, 18, 189, 194, 260; 



described by Strabo, 189 ; like Celti- 



berian horses, ib. 

 Pasterns, 374 

 Patagonia, 8 



Patricians, Sabine in origin, 306 

 Pedigree, Arabs trace through dams, 



187; pedigrees of Arab horses, 162 



