MAMMALIA—HORSE. 313 
The Arabs divide their horses into two races. The first, which they call 
hochlani, or kailhan, are those whose genealogy is known for two thousand 
years, and which has, they say, originated from the stud of Solomon. The 
other race, appropriated to servile uses, they name kadischi, or horses of an 
unknown race, and they are peculiarly careful, by certificates and other 
means, to preserve the principal races pure. The mares enjoy the exclusive 
privilege of transmitting the purity oi the race to their descendants, and 
the genealogies are alivays reckoned from the mothers. 
Herds of wild horses, the offspring of those which have escaped from the 
Spanish possessions in Mexico, are not uncommon in the extensive prairies 
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Kootannie Lands, near the northern sources of the Columbia, on the east- 
ern side of the Rocky Mountain ridge; but of late years, they have been 
almost eradicated in that quarter. They are not known to exist in a wild 
state, to the northward of the fifty-second or fifty-third parallel of latitude. 
The young stallions live in separate herds, being driven away by the old 
ones, and are easily ensnared, by using domestic mares asa decoy. The 
Kootannies are acquainted with the Spanish-American mode of taking them 
with the lasso. 
