114 THE HORSE AND ITS RELATIVES 



of the Christian era large numbers of the dun 

 horses of Northern Asia and Europe had been 

 imported into the districts on the east side of the 

 lower part of the Indus valley. The striping in the 

 Kathiawar ponies, which is most marked in the best 

 examples of the breed, appears to be a reversion 

 to the ancestral type, as the result of crossing. 



The foregoing does not, however, by any means 

 exhaust the extent of the influence of the tarpan on 

 the domesticated horses of Eastern Central Asia, 

 for Tibet is the home of a breed of ponies many of 

 which are cream-fawn, or yellow dun, in colour. 

 Many of these dun ponies, according to Mr. L. A. 

 Waddell,^ are brindled, and in one particular indi- 

 vidual a dorsal stripe, the tips of the ears, and 

 stripes on the shoulders, flanks, and limbs were 

 black, while there were dapplings on the haunches, 

 as in many of the Mongolian ponies. More remark- 

 able still are the so-called tanghans of Tibet, which 

 are of larger size, and stated to derive their name 

 from the Tanghastan district of Bhutan. They may 

 be either piebald, or skewbald, with or without 

 stripes, and, according to Colonel Hamilton Smith, 

 the chestnuts on the hind-legs are extremely small. 

 Some of the older travellers state that droves of 

 tanghans were to be found in a wild condition on 

 the Tibetan side of the Himalaya ; but, in one 

 instance, at any rate, there appears to be a confusion 



^ Among the Himalayas, p. 248. 



