PREFA CE. XV 



is to teach, the greater chance has the instructor 

 of becoming expert in his business. I need hardly 

 say, that I shall, always, be very grateful to any 

 of my readers who may favour me with special 

 information on this, or kindred subjects. 



I may mention, that, after returning . from 

 India, I held classes in England, Gibraltar, Malta, 

 Egypt, Ceylon, Singapore, and China. 



I have much pleasure in giving, in the body of 

 this work, the sources from which I have taken 

 various hints. 



The chief claim I, here, make to originality, 

 is, that in bringing together the results of ex- 

 perience in different countries, I have endea- 

 voured to reduce the art of breaking horses to a 

 more or less complete system, many of the 

 principles of which, I venture to think, I have 

 been the first to expound, and that I have made 

 several improvements in existing methods*. The 

 new things which I have introduced need no 

 special mention here. 



