. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. 132 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS statues, that of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, for instance. Neither bit nor bridle was used to hold or guide them ; often the rider had nothing but a species of headband that pressed upon the nose, and to which the reins were attached by a ring. The excavations at Pompeii have brought to light many fine models of these headbands. The Romans had long used sad- dles, while the Germans, regarding them as unmanly and enervating,
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. 132 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS statues, that of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, for instance. Neither bit nor bridle was used to hold or guide them ; often the rider had nothing but a species of headband that pressed upon the nose, and to which the reins were attached by a ring. The excavations at Pompeii have brought to light many fine models of these headbands. The Romans had long used sad- dles, while the Germans, regarding them as unmanly and enervating, preferred to ride did not excel either in strength or in speed, and that their riders did not train them, as did the Romans, to gallop round the enemy whom they assailed with their arrows, but made them go straight forward, or, at best, swerve a little to the right, .Horace complains of the effeminacy of his times. " The young man of good family," he says, " no longer understands the art of riding a horse and of subduing the restive chargers of the ;. WiNTHR bareback. Before the latter learned to use saddles they put the skins of animals on the backs of their horses, but used no stirrups. The ancient Greeks had cavalr}', and we know that Sesostris, king of Egypt, lee! many mounted warriors into battle. These same Greeks as well as the Romans wrote books on the equine race. Hippocrates states that the Scythians were afflicted with certain maladies caused by riding without stirrups. Tacitus transmits to us details on the horses and cav- alry of the Germans. 1 le says that these horses During the Crusades the Western knights saw and learned the manner in which the Eastern warriors, the Saracens, saddled and rode their steeds. We refer our readers to the graphic pages of Sir Walter Scott for a descrip- tion of a combat between a heavily armed Scottish knight and a Moorish emir. In our day the ponderous animals of the days of chivalry and their hea\'y trapp
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