. Les chevaux ; un traité pratique sur les différents types de courant aux Etats-Unis, avec quelque chose de leur histoire et de caractéristiques différentes. ype a été dem-onstrated dans le visage de handicaps que wouldhave usé la patience d'un homme anddetermined moins tenace. Cette expérience de M. Hunt Washington-fait une histoire de sa propre que je shalltell dans un chapitre ultérieur. À partir du moment où les chevaux ont commencé à beimported supérieure dans ce pays, et c'était en theColonial era, il y a toujours eu quelques Arabsand piques portées sur de divers degrés d'ex- * D'après le jugement

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. The horse in America; a practical treatise on the various types common in the United States, with something of their history and varying characteristics. ype has been dem-onstrated in the face of handicaps that wouldhave worn out the patience of a less tenacious anddetermined man. This experiment of Mr. Hunt-ington makes a story of its own which I shalltell in a later chapter. From the time that superior horses began to beimported into this country, and that was in theColonial era, there have always been a few Arabsand Barbs brought over of various degrees of ex- * According to the reckoning of Major Roger D. Upton of the 9thRoyal Lancers, there were used in the formation of the English stud fromthe time of James I, to the beginning of the 19th Century, Eastern horsesto this extent: 101 Arab stallions, 7 Arab mares, 4S Barb stallions, 34 Barbmares, 1 Egyptian stallion, 5 Persian stallions, 20 Turkish stallions, and2 Foreign stallions, or 210 in all. In the popular mind of all of thesewere classed as Arabs. This is not right, as the real Arab is much purer inblood than the others, though the Barbs have virtues by no means to bedespised.. J< o ARAB AND BABB HORSES 31 cellence. Of course, all of the English Thorough-breds were rich in the blood, Messenger amongthem. They came also into Canada with theFrench, and the Spaniards who had crossed theMississippi and gone to California from Mexicobrought many horses all presumably of thisbreed. The hardy Mustangs of the West, whichwere a very distinct type, were evidently de-scended from the castaways of the Spanish ex-plorers. To President Jefferson there came a giftof Arab stallions and mares. These were sold andthe money turned into the treasury. After Ibra-heem Pasha overran Arabia in 1817, and tookseveral hundred head of Nejdee horses to Egyptit was easier for a time to buy them for exporta-tion. And from there at about this time there wereseveral importations into America. This supply, however, was soon exhausted, a

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