Photo by Clarence Hailey, St John's Wood and Newmarket. 



CHAPTER X. 



Gibraltar — Malta — Duke of York — Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh — Cairo 

 — Colonel Valentine Baker — General Grenfell — Horses in Egypt — Cey- 

 lon and its Planters — Breaking a Jibber — The Spanish Mail — Tubbing 

 — Singapore — Mr Harry Abrams — Horses from Western Australia — 

 Horsebreaking — Savage Horses — Wood Flooring for Stables. 



TIRED of inaction we packed up the breaking bag, saddle 

 box, and the old trunk, and sailed in the autumn of 

 1887 to Gibraltar, where I had a class composed of the 

 officers of the garrison waiting for me, thanks to the kindness 

 of Major Crookenden of the Royal Artillery, who had sent a 

 flattering account of my doings at Woolwich to his brother 

 gunners on the Rock. I saw several beautiful Spanish mules 

 at Gibraltar. The horses and ponies were a poor lot, being 

 mostly Barbs, which look like under-bred and weedy Arabs. 

 From careful inquiries made there, at Malta and in Egypt, I 

 would say that the horses of Northern Africa are fully 3 stone 

 inferior to the true Sons of the Desert. Though useful slaves, 



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