| CHAPTER | | PAGE | | I. | Domestication of the Horse—Horse Furniture—Various Breeds—Blood Horses—Ponies | 1 | | | II. | Physiognomy of the Horse—Sagacity—Fidelity—Sociability, &c.—Anecdotes—Insanity | 23 | | | III. | Vices, and Disagreeable or Dangerous Habits | 50 | | | IV. | Speed and Endurance—Carnivorous Horses—Horseflesh as Food—Horsebaiting | 66 | | | V. | Primitive State of Wild Horses—The Steppes | 86 | | | VI. | The Centaur—The Mongols and Calmucks—A Russian Taboon | 100 | | | VII. | The Cossacks—The Circassians—The Mamelukes | 131 | | | VIII. | Bela—A Story of the Caucasus | 150 | | | IX. | Runjeet Singh’s Famous Horse Lylee—Anecdotes—Persian Horses | 179 | | | X. | Arabian Horses | 194 | | | XI. | Feral Horses of America—Indians and Gauchos | 204 | |
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