SMALL HORSES IN WARFARE. 



THE campaign in South Africa has proved 

 beyond doubt the necessity for a strong force 

 similar to that of the Boers. Their rapidity 

 of movement has given us an important 

 lesson in the military value of horses of that 

 useful type which is suitable for light cavalry 

 and mounted infantry. 



Since the war broke out we have seen 

 that we possess numbers of men able to 

 ride and shoot, who only need a little train- 

 ing to develop them into valuable soldiers, 

 but our difficulty throughout has been to 

 provide horses of the stamp required for 

 the work they have to perform. The expe- 

 rience we have gained in South Africa goes 

 to confirm that acquired in the Crimea, 

 where it was found that the horses sent 

 out from England were unable to with- 

 stand the climate, poor food, and the hard- 

 ships to which they were subjected, while 

 the small native horses and those bred in 



