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movements of the ship, by the fact of the 

 walls of the box being close to his sides. This 

 advantage may be safely dispensed with, when 

 the floor of the box is covered with cocoanut 

 matting, which is a subject I shall presently 

 consider. For the conveyance of heavy cart 

 horses, an extra allowance of room may have 

 to be made. 



Instead of having a box only just large 

 enough for a horse to stand up in, we might 

 have one sufficiently big (say, 9 feet by 6 feet) 

 for him to lie down in if he chooses to do so. 

 I have known such an arrangement to be used 

 when taking valuable horses from Australia to 

 India. It proved very beneficial to the health 

 of the animals thus boxed ; but the extra ex- 

 pense would not, as a rule, be justified in 

 ordinary cases. 



