150 Horses on Board Ship. 



via East London, short of water, with her 

 horses dying of thirst, and their mangers filled 

 with untouched food. Although this steamer 

 was paid off in consequence of the report sent 

 to the Admiralty about her, the Australian 

 Government chartered her afresh to carry 

 horses to South Africa ! " 



Before ballast tanks are used to carry fresh 

 water for horses, they should be carefully 

 cleaned out ; because they are often very 

 dirty, and frequently contain considerable 

 quantities of salt which has been left in them 

 from the salt water they had previously held. 

 During this war, there have been cases of 

 captains of steamers filling their tanks, for the 

 purpose of economy, with water from the river 

 in which their respective steamers were afloat at 

 the time, with the result that the in-take was 



