78 SUSPECTED POISONING OP CATTLE WITH HEMLOCK. 
every eye detected the motion, exhibiting a whiteness round 
the pupil, as seen in the pure Arabian; every nostril was 
dilated and ears erect. I cracked my whip, and, with one 
simultaneous start, the whole of them bounded off like 
frightened deer, snuffing the wind in terror. 
The mares are never ridden nor attempted to be tamed, but 
they are allowed to wander with their foals wherever they 
choose. 
The horses in regular use are chiefly entire; but they lack 
the courage and rampant behaviour that generally attend the 
entire horse in his natural state. Dullness and a sleepy- 
headedness are their general features. They will stand for 
almost any length of time in the streets unattended, and go 
in large droves together without attempting to run off. They 
wear quite a jaded, over-worked look ; most of them having 
sore backs and fetlocks, and unhealthy tumours existing upon 
them, more especially about the heels and fore extremities. 
The veterinary art is neither practised nor understood, and 
the poor brutes are allowed to perish from disease, sheerly 
through want of proper care and timely medical aid. 
When captured, the Brazilian horse shows, for some length 
of time, a hatred to the torture of the rude and severe fanciful 
bit of the natives; but at last he is made to yield to both 
it and the large and heavy spurs worn by them. The horses 
are never shod at all, and seldom have their feet examined. 
If anything is done to them, it is simply the removal of the 
rough pieces of horn with a small axe, done while the horse 
is standing. I found among them some very extraordinary 
good hackneys, and I always rode mine in a light plain snaffle 
bridle and martingale, and found they rode far better this way 
than with the inhuman appliances of the country. No 
journey seemed too long for them, and if required, they would 
leap over any obstacle like a well-trained hunter. 
The above facts may not be uninteresting to those who 
admire that useful and intelligent animal, the horse. 
SUSPECTED POISONING OF YEARLINGS AND 
SHEEP WITH HEMLOCK. 
By A. Bickford, M.R.C.Y.S., Totness. 
On the 6th of June last, I was requested to make a 'post¬ 
mortem examination of a yearling that had died in the morning 
