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Indian country - bred is reflected in their 

 respective cost. Mr. Hallen, in the memo- 

 randum before referred to, says stallions of 

 the country-bred class can be obtained a 

 from about 6 IDS. to ^13, while suitable 

 Arab pony stallions cost from 16 los. to 

 ^33- 



PONIES IN NORTHERN AFRICA.* 



The best authority on the breeds used by 

 the Arabs of Northern Africa is probably 

 General E. Daumas, who held high com- 

 mands in Algeria and was for a time the 

 French Consul at Mascara. The Chasseurs 

 d'Afrique are mounted on Barbs, and thus 

 the capabilities of these horses were of prac- 

 tical importance to this officer ; moreover, he 

 took a very keen personal interest in all 

 matters relating to the horse, and spared no 

 endeavour to inform himself concerning the 

 breed of the country in which he resided. 

 Hence the description in General Daumas' 

 book, The Horses of the Sahara : with Com- 

 mentaries by the Emir Abd El Kadr (1863) 

 is accepted as the standard on the Barb. 



* The Barb, there is no possible doubt, is of pure Arab 

 origin : in the seventh century, when the Fatimite sect of 

 Mohammedans held sway in Egypt, numerous Arab tribes 

 migrated to Africa and gradually spread over the whole of 

 the northern portion of the continent ; the horses they 

 brought with them spread in like manner. 



