58 Horses on Board Ship. 



were attacked with pneumonia during the first 

 three days. 



Horses, when it is practicable, are best 

 taken on board or disembarked by means of 

 a gangway (Fig. 4), the gradient of which 

 should be easy ; and the floor should be 

 covered with cocoanut matting or other 

 suitable material so as to afford the animals 

 secure foot-hold. Colonel Nunn tells me that 

 " the sides of the gangway should be high 

 enough to prevent horses seeing over them, 

 and consequently getting frightened at strange 

 sights about the ship, in the docks, or on the 

 shore. Gangways should not have a roof, 

 because horses, as a rule, object to go into 

 a tunnel. Mules will usually walk up a 

 gangway by themselves, if some soiled 

 bedding and dung are spread over it, and 



