Embarking and Disembarking Horses. 6 1 



if they are allowed time to put down their 

 noses and smell the litter. I obtained this 

 useful hint on board a ferry boat in the 

 Punjab." 



Gangways which are employed for the 

 transit of horses from one deck to another 

 deck are called brows. 



In default of a gangway, horses may be 

 conveyed into or out of a ship by means of 

 a crane or derrick, either in slings or in a 

 portable horse-box (p. 83). For this purpose, 

 hydraulic cranes are the best. They work 

 much more smoothly and with far greater 

 precision than steam winches, which are the 

 moving agents of derricks. They have the 

 great advantage of being free from noise, 

 which in the case of winches, is often a 

 cause of alarm to horses that are in their 



