02 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



board of a slave-ship, on the passage from the coast of 

 Guinea to the West Indies in 1798, the skin, legs, 

 and head having been carefully preserved by the 

 master, who kindly permitted a sketch and notes to be 

 made of it at Dominica. 



" The koomrah of the mountains is about ten, or 

 ten and a half hands, high ; the head is broad across 

 the forehead, an$ deep measured to the jowl ; it is 

 small, short, and pointed at the muzzle, making the 

 profile almost triangular; instead of a forelock between 

 the ears, down to the eyes the hair is long and woolly; 

 the eyes are small, of a light hazel colour ; and the 

 ears large and wide ; the neck thin, forming an angle 

 with the head, and clad with a scanty but long black 

 mane ; the shoulder rather vertical and meagre, with 

 withers low, but the croup high and broad; the barrel 

 large ; thighs cat-hammed, and the limbs clean but 

 asinine, with the hoofs elongated ; short pastern, small 

 callosities on the hind legs ; and the tail clothed with 

 short fur for several inches before the long black hair 

 begins. The animal is entirely of a reddish bay 

 colour, without streak or mark on the spine, or any 

 white about the limbs. We made our sketch at 

 Portsmouth, and believe it refers to the same animal 

 which lived for many years, if we are rightly informed, 

 in a paddock of the late Lord Grenville's. There was 



