The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . of Xerxes drove chariots drawn by wild assesl. Fig. 22. The Onager^. From this it is clear that the peoples of western Hindustan,who did not possess horses, had made the wild ass obedient tothe yoke. In Carmania (included in modern Persia), a region boundedby the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf on the south, and by ^ Tegetmeier, Horses, Asses, etc., pp. 23-5. - Herod, vii. 86, ?fjXavvov Sk KiXrjTai Kal cip/xaTa virb 5^ Tolai dp/xaat virrjaavXirvoi Kal ovot aiypioi. ^ The illustration is from a photograpli (copyright) from the specimen inthe Zo
The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse . of Xerxes drove chariots drawn by wild assesl. Fig. 22. The Onager^. From this it is clear that the peoples of western Hindustan,who did not possess horses, had made the wild ass obedient tothe yoke. In Carmania (included in modern Persia), a region boundedby the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf on the south, and by ^ Tegetmeier, Horses, Asses, etc., pp. 23-5. - Herod, vii. 86, ?fjXavvov Sk KiXrjTai Kal cip/xaTa virb 5^ Tolai dp/xaat virrjaavXirvoi Kal ovot aiypioi. ^ The illustration is from a photograpli (copyright) from the specimen inthe Zoological Garden, Regents Park, by Mr W. P. Dando, , officialphotographer to the Zoological Society. 48 THE EXISTING EQUIDAE [CH. Persia on the west, down to the time of Strabo\ asses onaccount of the scarcity of horses were generally made use ofin war. They sacrifice an ass to Ares, who is the only godworshipped by them, for they are a warlike people. TheCarmanians closely resembled the Persians and Medes in theircustoms. That the onager was regularly captured and domesticatedin Assyria
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