236 Horses on Board Ship. 



not unusually dies with some of it between his 

 teeth. As a rule, he drinks very little water, 

 apparently on account of the hurried state ol 

 his breathing. The disease generally runs its 

 ^course in about six days, during the last two or 

 three of which there is a watery discharge from 

 the nostrils in varied quantities. Sometimes it 

 merely moistens the opening of the nostrils and 

 the muzzle ; but at other times it runs freely 

 from the nostrils, in which case the animal 

 often licks it off his muzzle. The discharge is 

 at first colourless, but later on it assumes a 

 rusty red tint, which indicates that putrefac- 

 tion is present in the lungs. It always has 

 a foetid smell, which increases in intensity 

 according to the progress of the process of 

 decomposition in the lungs. Occasionally 

 the animal dies suddenly, but death is 



