Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . an of those Cossacs that migrated to Poland is also stated, I havesomewhere read, to have been presented by the Polish king with a horse-tail, amongother ensigns of authority. But these Cossacs vfere but a small tribe; and it seemslikely that they borrowed this military ensign, as they did many of their militaryterms, from the Turkmans. 4 In Blackwoods Magazine for August, 1842, the writer of the Chapter on Turkishhistory thus appropriately makes u
Horae Apocalypticae; or, A commentary on the Apocalypse, critical and historical; including also an examination of the chief prophecies of Daniel . an of those Cossacs that migrated to Poland is also stated, I havesomewhere read, to have been presented by the Polish king with a horse-tail, amongother ensigns of authority. But these Cossacs vfere but a small tribe; and it seemslikely that they borrowed this military ensign, as they did many of their militaryterms, from the Turkmans. 4 In Blackwoods Magazine for August, 1842, the writer of the Chapter on Turkishhistory thus appropriately makes use of the figure. The recent overthrow of theMameluc power by the Ottomans had extended the shadow of the horse-tails far alongthe coast of Africa. He is speaking of the times of Barbarossa. And in that same North of Afiica we still find the figure used, by the remnant-fewof the once mighty Turkish empire there remaining. On General Bugeauds sum-moning the tribe of Mascara to submission, the answer began thus; The liorse ofsubmission has no tail. Semaphore de Marseilles, June 12, 1841. 16 514. TURKMAN STANDAKB OF THREE Fiom the Rctonal Biile. CH. VII. § 2.] THE HORSE-TAILS HAVING HEADS. 515 present; and Avho, in his Divine prescience, speaks of thingsthat arc not as though they were ? And with these they do injustice: aSixouo-i. Thereseems a certain antithesis in this to what is predicated ofthe heads in front. With the Uon-Hke fire-breathing headsin front the symbohc horses were to kill the third of men;i. e. to kill them in their political or national these heads behind they were afterwards to injureand oppress the individuals of the remnant left; wdiile alsodiffusing around them the poison of their false religion.—And alas! turning to historic records for illustration onthis point, wdiere is the tvriter on the Turkish conquestsand administration that does not tell of the oppression oftlie Christian subject rayahs by these Turkman Pa
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