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SCENE ON THE LOGIEE RIVER, ZAMBESI. 
[Nature and Art, June 1, 18GG. 
see ; but, as he had achieved little success on the course, 
having scarcely won anything but the Czarowitz stakes, he 
was sold for a moderate price. As to Gladiator, maternal 
grandsire of Gladiateivr, this horse presented a type of such 
marvellous beauty that it is impossible to conceive how 
England could part with him ; and certainly, adds M. 
Houel, if the English had possessed a public administra- 
tion or a disinterested society, seeking only the improve- 
ment of the race of horses, that magnificent animal would 
never have crossed the Channel. Gladiator was irre- 
proachable as to form, and exhibited an amount of elegance 
and distinction that recalled the Arab breed in all its ideal 
perfection. He was bought by the administration of the 
Erench Haras and sent to Pin, and gave rise to those 
splendid reproducers, Fitz-Gladiator, Ventre Saint Gris, 
Surprise, Capucine, who will for ever keep alive his renown 
in the annals of the French turf. 
Another Frenchman, M. de Saint Germain, expressed 
in the Corps Legislatif , last session, similar opinions respect- 
ing’ French and English breeding, and condemned moreover, 
the abuse of two-year-old races, declaring that such trials 
at an age when the osseous frame of the horse is not' com- 
pletely formed, have gradually undermined the good consti- 
tution of the English racer. 
The idleness in which English racers generally live after 
the age of three years or so, is also greatly condemned. 
When a first-class horse has undergone his proofs the 
animal is not completely developed : his organization is not 
perfected. It is not enough that he should have made 
exertions as a colt ; exercise must be continued, in modera- 
tion of course, but to a sufficient extent to keep up the 
habit of action in the principal members. The Arabs well 
know the necessity for this, and when Abd-el-Kader sent a 
choice stud-horse to Louis Napoleon, he recommended that 
it should run once a week. The administration of the Haras 
has always adopted and carefully practised the system of 
continuous and systematic exercise of a practical kind. 
Another cause of the supposed falling off of the English 
stock, is in-and-in breeding.' Every year, says another 
French writer, there is a desire for the progeny of a 
favourite horse, and the consequence is that in a few years 
all the young racers descend from the same sire, and many 
excellent families of horses are allowed to die out, simply 
because they have not furnished a great winner during a 
generation. The development of a lymphatic temperament, 
and the early failing of members are declared to be the 
inevitable results of such a system. 
It is said that France is now behind England in nothing 
connected with race-horses but the want of good training- 
grounds, which will be found or formed in sufficient numbers 
before long. 
The opinions quoted above are deserving of the earnest 
consideration of the English breeder ; many of them are 
without doubt perfectly true in principle, although the facts 
connected with them may here and there be exaggerated. 
It is better, however, always to overrate than to under- 
rate a rival, and in matters such as this of which we are 
treating, it is well, if we are beaten, that we should know 
it. . Allowing, therefore, that the points laid down are all 
perfect, and that the English system, or rather practice, is 
as bad as possible, it woidd be unfair to dismiss the matter 
without calling to mind the fact that the deterioration of 
the English racer is not proved by the superiority of two, 
three, or a dozen horses bred in another country, and 
descended from British sires. But if racing and horse- 
breeding be worth doing at all, they are worth doing well ; 
and if English breeders cannot keep or retake the lead, they 
had better give up the race : the second place is unworthy 
of those who have so long been first. 
A very remarkable exhibition of half-bred horses took 
place in the Champs Elysees in April under the direction of 
the Sociiti hippique franqaise, the object of which is the 
encouragement of the breed of hunters, military, carriage, 
and saddle horses,- — in short, half-bred horses of all kinds. 
There were from 300 to 400 horses exhibited, including a 
large number from the Imperial stables. A great number of 
prizes were awarded, and the exhibition finished with a 
carrousel by the officers of the cavalry school of Saumur. 
This exhibition was duly reported in the English papers, 
and we only refer to it for the purpose of informing our own 
countrymen of the steps taken in France for the encourage- 
ment of the breeders, as well as the improvement of the 
breed, of the valuable class of animals which the society in 
question has taken under its especial patronage. 
SCENE ON THE LOGIEE RIVER, ZAMBESI. 
The Full-striped Quagga (Equus Chapmanni). 
By Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S. 
I N the year 1860, having returned to Cape Town from the 
Zambesi expedition, worn out with fever and literally 
almost destitute, I determined not to desist from the 
attempt to penetrate into the interior of Africa, and the 
generous hospitality of my friends, Mr. and Mrs. Logier, 
enabled me to devote to the purpose of my re-equipment all 
the proceeds of my art during my residence in the colony. 
I was fortunate, too, in meeting with an esteemed friend, 
Mr. James Chapman, who, since I had known him, ten years 
before, on the Yaal River, had been almost continually en- 
gaged in travel, and was then fitting out another expedition 
for the purpose of exploration combined with hunting and 
commerce. He had himself crossed the continent of Africa 
from the east, reaching Walvisch Bay on the west coast, in 
1855, being the first European, so far as we know, who per- 
formed that feat ; and only by the desertion of his native 
crew he missed being the discoverer of the magnificent 
Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, two years before they were 
seen by Dr. Livingstone. 
He invited me to join ; we agreed to attempt the passage 
from Walvisch Bay to the Delta of the Zambesi on the east 
coast ; and, for the navigation of the river below the Falls, 
I constructed a copper double boat in twelve sections, only 
four of which we were able to carry up. After visiting the 
Falls, in July, 1862, 1 selected a small hill, nearly a hundred 
miles farther down, which I named after my friend Logier, 
and began cutting and sawing trees into plank to rebuild 
the missing portions ; while upon my friend devolved the 
arduous task of hunting to supply the whole of the party 
with meat. Unfortunately, the carriers were able to lighten 
their cargo and gratify their appetites by one and the same 
process, and not a tithe of the liberal supply ever reached 
me. I. had, therefore, to leave my work and g-o hunting’ : 
fever and starvation came on ; one of my party died, and 
seven of Mr. Chapman’s. He was himself so ill that, as he 
was unable to join me, I was obliged finally to abandon my 
work when I had every prospect of being able to complete 
it and to return to him. 
It was during' my residence hero that the incident occurred 
which forms the subject of the illustration. On Sunday, the 
Vth of December, I had shot a spur-winged goose, out of a 
flock that came to feed upon the young grass which the 
rains had caused to spring up ; and I had wounded, but 
could not capture, a Guinea fowl. As our meat was entirely 
expended I omitted the morning service, and went out with 
two Damaras — Matokolo and Kajumba — over the red and 
rugged hills to the southward, between the Logier River and 
the Luisi. The dense forest along the Zambesi bank com- 
prised many varieties of noble timber trees, which, small as 
they seemed from a distance, I always found unmanageably 
