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whose horses shall be of much the same type 

 of those described by Colonel Barrow. 



The special correspondent of the Times 

 with the Modder River force, in course of 

 an article on this arm, which appears likely 

 to play a large part in the wars of the 

 future, writes thus of the animals used by 

 the Colonists and Boers : 



" Here in South Africa the country-bred pony, 

 tractable, used to fire, and taught to remain where 

 he is left if the reins be dropped from the bit, is 

 already a half-trained animal for these purposes, and 

 the work of training has been slight in consequence ; 

 but in Afghanistan, and other places where the 

 mounted infantry man has been tried in a lesser 

 degree, the chief cause of trouble has been found in 

 his mount." 



The South African ponies ridden by the 

 Colonial scouts and mounted infantry have 

 acquired their education as shooting" ponies 

 on the veldt under conditions very similar 

 to those prevailing in warfare. There is 

 radical difference between animals so trained 

 and ill-broken Indian country-breds whose 

 tempers have been far too frequently spoiled 

 by rough usage in native hands. The 

 mounted infantry in Afghanistan might well 

 find trouble with such ponies. 



