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camp during the night, the Arabs will be found with their coats as sleek as if they 

 had just come from a warm stable, while those of other breeds will be all awry. 

 In their native home Arab horses will subsist on the scanty herbage found 

 here and there in the desert, and, in the absence of these, on a little barley, chopped 

 straw, dates, and, in extreme cases, camels' milk. They drink only at long intervals, 

 and then but scantily ; while their power of making long marches under a scorch- 

 ing sun is unrivalled. The affection with which the Arab treats his horse is too 

 well known to need comment. 



Levant and The horses of the Levant and Persia are more or less closely 



Persian Horses, related to the Arab, but are often of larger size. Indeed, in Southern 



Persia the horses are very similar to Arabs, though less delicately formed ; but in 



GERMAN HALF-BRED HORSE (^ nat. size). 



the northern districts they are all larger. The Turkoman horses, which often stand 

 16 hands in height, are allied to those of Northern Persia. 

 The English The English race-horse, of which examples are represented in the 



Race-Horse, figures on pp. 492, 496, has been produced by a gradual improvement 

 of the original native breed, which had been going on for several centuries, and 

 subsequently by a large infusion of Eastern and African blood. The present breed 

 is mainly the product of three foreign horses ; of which the first was from the 

 Levant, belonging to Capt. Byerly in 1689, and hence called the " Byerly Turk." 

 From him was descended " Herod," which, as being the most celebrated of this 

 stock, has given the name of the Herod-line to all his descendants. In the reign 

 of Queen Anne the " Darley Arabian " (so called from the name of its owner) like- 



