The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . s it beyond doubt thatthey were the same breed as that found ever since in Barbaryand Morocco, and which have been bred by the Arabs of SouthArabia only since the early centuries of the Christian here reproduce (Fig. 70) the Afer (Barbary horse*) and 1 XXXV. 11. - I learn from Mr Walter Harris, , Gonville and Caius College, Cam-bridge, the well-known traveller and author of Tafilet, that the modern Berberwords for a horse are avis^ and ^agmer. R. H. 16 242 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. (Fig, 71) the Maurus (Morocco horse) depicted
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . s it beyond doubt thatthey were the same breed as that found ever since in Barbaryand Morocco, and which have been bred by the Arabs of SouthArabia only since the early centuries of the Christian here reproduce (Fig. 70) the Afer (Barbary horse*) and 1 XXXV. 11. - I learn from Mr Walter Harris, , Gonville and Caius College, Cam-bridge, the well-known traveller and author of Tafilet, that the modern Berberwords for a horse are avis^ and ^agmer. R. H. 16 242 THE HORSES OF PREHISTORIC [CH. (Fig, 71) the Maurus (Morocco horse) depicted by Stradanus(an artist who lived in the latter half of the sixteenth century)in the Equile Johannis Duds Austriaci ( The Stable ofDon John of Austria ). Writing two centuries later than Strabo and Livy, Pausaniassays^ that when the Mauri took up arms against Rome, Antoni-nus drove them out of all their land and forced them to flee intothe uttermost parts of Libya as far as Mount Atlas and thepeoples who dwell in that mountain. These Mauri form the. Fig. 71. The Moorish Horse. greatest part of the independent Libyans; they are nomads,and are harder to combat than the Scythians, inasmuch asthey roam, not on waggons, but on horseback, they and theirwomen. But certain relics from Egypt furnish some evidencethat Libyan women rode on hoiseback at least eight centuriesbefore Pausanias wrote, and also that the Libyan horses wereof a dark colour, like those seen on almost all Egyptianpaintings down to a late period. At Daphnae (the Tahpanhesof the Bible, mod. Defenneh) in the sandy desert between theSuez Canal and the cultivated Delta, Psammetichus I ( 665) 1 VIII. ^3, 3. T,r] AND HISTORIC TIMES 243 planted guards against the Syrians, as he also did at Elephantineagainst the Ethiopians and at Mnrea against the Libyans.
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