8 Horses on Board Ship. 



keepers can testify. For instance, it is a 

 common practice among English farmers to 

 use horses at grass for their own trap purposes. 

 As I am now living in the Midlands, I fre- 

 quently see such animals go ten miles or more 

 to market and the same distance home in a 

 day, at a smart trot, and drawing four or five 

 portly individuals, without any bad effect on 

 the quadruped. Colonial friends tell me that 

 in Australia, men often ride similarly fed 

 animals from thirty to fifty miles in a day 

 without distressing either themselves or their 

 mount. Naturally, the drier grass of the 

 Australian Colonies is better than the moisture- 

 laden herbage of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 for enabling a horse to do hard work. 



Stuffing horses with corn on board ship, 

 and then expecting them when landed to 



