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frequent colours grey and bay, occasionally sorrel, but, as with the 

 Arab, rarely black, and never piebald. It has the legs and the blood- 

 head of the Arab, its spirit, bottom, good temper, and proportioned to 

 size, more than its strength. Of these I remember that the late Sir 

 Stamford Raffles presented a set of four to the Princess Charlotte, which 

 she drove in Windsor park. With relays of these Insular ponies, I 

 have myself, as did many others of my contemporaries, ridden 100 miles 

 an end, at the average rate of ten miles an hour. The weight carried 

 was full thirteen stone. 



The most current name for the horse of the Indian Archipelago is the 

 corruption of a Sanscrit one, and from this circumstance it might at first 

 sight be supposed that the animal was introduced from India. For this, 

 however, there is no foundation, for the Indian name is but a synonyme, 

 for in the language of Java, where the horse is most numerous and 

 which is the chief seat of Hinduism, the current name is a native one. 

 In one of the principal languages of the great island of Celebes, the 

 horse bears the Javanese name, while in another it is known by the 

 odd one of the *' buffalo of Java." In Celebes, which contains extensive 

 grassy plains, and no tigers, the horse is found in the wild state, and 

 he is hunted with the lasso and reclaimed as in America. From these 

 facts, we may be disposed to infer that the Javanese, long a civilized 

 people, taught the people of Celebes — a very rude one, even when first 

 become known to Europeans — the art of domesticating the horse. It 

 may be added, in corroboration of this view, that the horse of Celebes 

 differs materially from that of Java, being larger, stronger, and better 

 bred. 



Proceeding eastward and southward, the horse is found, for the 

 last time, in Timur and Sandalwood Island, each of which has a 

 race peculiar to itself. In no island of the North or South Pacific 

 Ocean was the horse found. Going northward, after quitting Borneo 

 and Celebes, we find a native horse, for the first time, in the Japanese 

 Archipelago. This would seem to be a peculiar race, if the horse of 

 Japan was not imported from the rude countries on the Gulf of Okotsk, 

 which, considering the state of Japanese navigation, is not very probable. 

 Here we have no longer the mere ponies of the Indian Archipelago, but 

 the full-sized horse which old John Adams, a mariner, born and bred in 

 Wapping, and a mighty favourite of the Emperor of Japan of his day, 

 writing from the spot in 1613, thus describes: — "Their horses are not 

 tall, but of the size of our middling nags, short and well trussed, small 

 headed, and very full of mettle, in my opinion far exceeding the Spanish 



