REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. 663 
Horses, then, may be kept in stables, provided always that 
they have been under proper management. 
2. My opinion is grounded on experience of about five 
years with the horse artillery, as a student in England, during 
General Sir John Moore’s campaign, doing duty with the 
body guard two years at Calcutta, and with the horse artil- 
lery here three years, besides five years at the Hissar remount 
depot ; besides occasional observation of regular and irregu- 
lar cavalry both in Europe and this country for eighteen 
years. I refer to facts during Sir J. Moore’s campaign ; but 
without the collateral circumstances, the bare facts would 
not support my opinion : no conclusion could be come to in 
favour of or against either system, as I shall hereafter en- 
deavour to show. 
3. This depends much on management ; but as far as I 
at present know, glanders and farcy, unless arising from con- 
tagion, are produced only in stables and other close places, 
as on shipboard, but this would not apply to the open 
cavalry stables of India, if kept clean ; though this is 
difficult from want of draining and use of (mootalees) 
urinals. 
Kennuree, or weakness of the loins from fever, (inflamma- 
tion of the brain,) I believe, would be oftener produced by ex- 
posure, as well as abrasions of the skin, which take on a peculiar 
action from climate, called bursantee ulcer, also cankered feet. 
*H orses are more liable to endemical diseases, if exposed, but 
less liable to inflammatory complaints and coughs, in India 
cavalry stables, (not in others,) as the cause of these com- 
plaints is variations of temperature, to which horses are most 
exposed at picket in the open air. Sore backs oftener happen 
at picket from saddles not fitting, after horses have lost flesh, 
partly from exposure, or from the sircingle injured by rain 
and sun. 
4. No. When there is not a current of air, and the stables 
are dirty, glanders and farcy are the consequences. 
5 . It is not the practice to keep horses in stables at this 
time. 
6. I do not recollect the casualties, but the impression left 
on my mind regarding the same horses that had been on 
shipboard, at picket from Mondego Bay to Lisbon, in stables 
at Lisbon, again at picket with General Hope’s division 
(park of artillery) from Lisbon, through Portugal and Spain, 
before and during the retreat, is as stated in paragraph 9. 
7. These might be, but there are means of prevention. 
8. Sooner with stables. 
9. No ; and it is not because they get accustomed to ex- 
