miles in five consecutive days, or at the rate of eighty miles a day, 

 carrying lOst. Tib. The feat was performed on the race-course of 

 Bangalore, but 13° distant from the Equator. The horse was Jumping 

 Jemmy, and the rider, as meritorious as his horse, Captain Home, of the 

 Madras Artillery. 



I will give you, however, the description of a genuine Arab, more 

 lively as well as more amusing than any other that I am acquainted with. 

 It is that of Evelyn in excellent quaint English. In the year 1683 the 

 Turks, under their Grand Vizier, invested Vienna, and the Emperor of 

 Germany and his ministers fled. John Sobieski, elective King of 

 Poland, came to the rescue. The Turkish army was entrenched, and 

 the Grand Vizier, in Turkish fashion, was taking the matter coolly and 

 quietly, for he was seen from a neighbouring height smoking his 

 chibouk and sipping his coffee. Polish blood could not stand such a 

 sight, and the Polish cavalry, lance in hand, cleared the entrenchments, 

 entered the Turkish camp, routed the army and pursued it to Hungary 

 and beyond it. For this service, in less than a century, the Poles were 

 requited, after a peculiar fashion, by having their country partitioned, and 

 a large slice of it taken by the descendants of those who but for them 

 might have been now crying " Bismillah" instead of being in league with 

 the Pope. Some Arab horses were among the spoil, and were brought for 

 sale to England, and exhibited before Charles II. The following is the 

 account given of them in the Diary. " Dec. 17th, 1686, Early in the morn- 

 ing I went into St James's Park to see three Turkish or Asian horses, 

 newly brought over and first shown to His Majesty. There were 

 four, but one of them died at sea, being three weeks coming from 

 Hamburgh. They were taken from a Bashaw at the siege of 

 Vienna, at the late famous raising of that leaguer. I never beheld so 

 delicate a creature as one of them was, of somewhat a bright bay, two 

 white feet, in all regards beautiful, a blaze : such a head, eyes, ears, 

 neck, breast, belly, haunches, legs, pasterns, and feet, — in all regards 

 beautiful and proportioned to admiration, spirited, proud, nimble, making 

 halt, turning with that swiftness and in so small a compass as was 

 admirable. With all this so gentle and tractable as called to mind what 

 Busbequius speaks of them, to the reproach of our grooms in Europe 

 who bring up their horses so churlishly as makes most of them retain 

 their bad habits. They trotted like does, as if they did not feel the 

 ground. Five hundred guineas were demanded for the first, three 

 hundred for the second, and two hundred for the third, which was brown. 

 All of them were choicely shaped, but the two last not altogether so 



