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CHAPTER X. 



UNSHOD HORSES IN THE INDIAN MUTINY — UNSHOD HORSES IN 

 THE ZULU WAR — FARRIERS IN THE ARMY ARE TAILORS, 

 ETC. — ' DAILY TELEGRAPH ' ON FROZEN STREETS — COMPARA- 

 TIVE INUTILITY OF COGS AND STUDS — UNSHOD HORSES IN 

 MEXICO, ETC., AND THEIR REMAREA.BLE FREEDOM FROM 

 LAMENESS AND DISEASES OF THE FEET AND LEGS. 



During the mutiny in India many of our cavalry 

 horses went unshod, because they could not get 

 shod, and they never went better in their lives. 



In the ' Morning Advertiser ' of July 1 8 last, the 

 special military correspondent at the Cape gives an 

 interesting account of a ride that he made with 

 irregular cavalry on a raid. He says : ' Few of the 

 men have their horses shod in front ; some do not 

 shoe at all ; ' and he remarks that, in his excursion, 

 they had to go over ' sheets of polished, wet, 

 slippery stone in the torrent beds, making one 

 wonder how our unshod horses could keep their 

 feet.' It is worthy of remark that this was only a 

 few days before the battle of Ulundi, in which 

 these horses took such an active part. In fact, they 

 saw the whole war through ; and, on August 9, we 

 find the special war correspondent of the ' Daily 

 News ' reporting of these same animals that * the 



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