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INDEX 



Denmark, 45. 



Dervishes, 208. 

 Deserts, 7, 8, 14, 57, 133. 

 Destriers, 145. 

 Diamond hitch, 151. 

 Diluvial horse, 40. 

 Directions, trail, 191. 

 Disease, 216. 

 Docking tails, 2, 70. 

 Double back, the, 118. 

 Dragging the forefoot, 91. 

 Dragons, age of, 2. 

 Draught horses, 41, 121. 

 Dreams of horses, 88. 

 Dress of horsemen, 161. 

 Drinking, habits in, 65. 

 Driving, 106, 180. 

 Dun horse, 14, 31-2, 51, 115- 



6, 121, 124 et seq. 

 Dung, special places for, 68 ; 



indications of health, 91. 

 Dust bath, 201. 



Ears, movements of, 89, 90, 



91, 92. 

 Eating horse flesh, 97, 99. 

 Egypt, 131 to 137. 

 Ehzabeth, Queen, 210. 

 English methods, 151. 

 Equatorial regions, 18, 19. 

 Equites 122. 

 Equipment, 152. 

 Erythrea, 223. 

 Europe, Chap. II. 

 Ewart, Prof. J, Cosser, F.R.S 



vii.-x., 40. 

 Exhaustion, 197. 

 Eyesight, 156. 



Family life of horses, 66-7. 

 Feeding, 199, 200 ; when 

 groomed, 73 ; by breeders, 



137. 215. 

 Fighting methods of, 68, 90. 

 Fires, Camp, 200. 

 Foals, 69. 

 Foot of horse, 4, 8, 87. 



Forage, 11, 215. 



Forelock, 14. 



Forest horses, 7, 40, 41. 



Forest, Horses in, 194, 197. 



Formations in defence, 28, 



68. 

 Fox hunting, 210 et seq. 225. 

 France, 36, 41, 122, 178, 223. 

 Friends, Making, 183. 

 Frontiersmen's Pocket Book, 



177. 

 Frontiersmen, Legion of, see 



Legion. 



Gait, 186. 



Gall cures, 198. 



GaU?, 153, 198, 233. 



Gaul, 122. 



Geldings, 68. 



Genesis, 129 ct seq. 



Germany, 122, 211, 223, 225. 



Germs, 15, 216. 



Gestures, 9, 194. 



Ghosts seen by horses, 85. 



Girth, 80, 154, 198. 



Gothic horsemen, 121. 



Grain, Feeding, 137, 197. 



Gramma grass, 56. 



Granite, Influence of, 38. 



Grasses, 27, 55-6. 



Grazing, 7, 59. 



Greasewood, 57. 



Greeks, 115, et seq., 138, 143. 



Greenland, 16, 17, 19. 



Grey horses, 47, 140. 



Grimaldi grottoes, 40. 



Groaning, 90. 



Grooming, 73, 74, 231, 234. 



Grooms, 78. 



Guidance in travel, 189. 



Gulf Stream, 16, 19. 



Habits, 72. 



Halts, 195. 



Hands, Training of, 159. 



Harem, The, 66. 



Harty, Constable, 180. 



