INDEX 



537 



Val d'Arno, fossil horses of, 143 



Vandals, 334, 335 



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, 344 



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 



Vezere, 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, 161; dug, Arabia, 207 

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

 Western Asia, horses of, 188 

 Westmeath, 413; hunters, 414 

 West Wind impregnates Lusitanian 



mares, 257 



Wheel, 483 sqq.; 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 Kome, 

 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 Eoyal 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 W., 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, 344 



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. 



