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ANCIBNT SCYTHIANS. 



horseback; from childhood he is familiarized to the art of riding, guiding, and governing this 

 animal. Nowhere is the power of the horse so wedded to the life of man. Man here — not the 

 individual, but the genus, the tribe — seems actually born with a horse under him, and thus in a 

 measure to circumvent time and annihilate distance. The power of clinging to the horse, even 

 while in full career, at the same time throwing the body in various positions, on the neck, on the 

 croup, on this side and that ; nay, almost beneath the belly, and at the same time whirling the 

 spear, launching the javelin, or discharging the arrow, is possessed by the Arab, the Turk, and in 

 a remarkable degree by the Camanches — but in these exercises, as well as in the practice of legiti- 

 mate horsemanship, the Tartar is the master of them all. 



ANCIENT MEDIAN SOLDIERS. 



Persia has also had fine breeds of horses from an early date. Cyrus, we are told, had collected 

 in his stud eight hundred stallions and sixteen hundred mares. From that time to the present 

 Vol. I.— 75. 



