. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . he intermixture of thehorses of Barbary. In France are numerous varieties, and most of themvery serviceable animals. The other European races, it would be impossi-ble to enumerate here. & MAMMALIA—HORSE. 313 The Arabs divide their horses into two races. The first, which they callkvchlani, or kailhan, are those whose genealogy is known for two thousandyears, and which has, they say, originated from the stud of Solomon. Theother race, appropriated to servile uses,
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . he intermixture of thehorses of Barbary. In France are numerous varieties, and most of themvery serviceable animals. The other European races, it would be impossi-ble to enumerate here. & MAMMALIA—HORSE. 313 The Arabs divide their horses into two races. The first, which they callkvchlani, or kailhan, are those whose genealogy is known for two thousandyears, and which has, they say, originated from the stud of Solomon. Theother race, appropriated to servile uses, they name kadischi, or horses of anunknown race, and they are peculiarly careful, by certificates and othermeans,, to preserve the principal races pure. The mares enjoy the exclusiveprivilege of transmitting the purity of the race to their descendants, andthe genealogies are always reckoned from the mothers. Herds of wild horses, the offspring of those which have escaped from theSpanish possessions in Mexico, are not uncommon in the extensive prairiesthat lie to the west of the Mississippi. They were once numerous on the. Kootannie Lands, near the northern sources of the Columbia, on the east-em side of the Rocky Mountain ridge; but of late years, they have beenalmost eradicated in that quarter. They are not known to exist in a wildstate, to the northward of the fifty-second or fifty-third parallel of young stallions live in separate herds, being driven away by the oldones, and are easily ensnared, by using domestic mares as a decoy. TheKootannies are acquainted with the Spanish-American mode of taking thernwith the lasso. 314 MAMMALIA—ZEBRA. THE DZHIGGTAI, OR WILD ASS,* Exhibits in its natural, or wild state, an appearance very far superior, bothin point of beauty and vivacity, to the horse. It is a native of Asia, living,like the rest of this genus, in a gregarious manner. It chiefly occurs in thedry and mountainous deserts of Tartary, and in the southern pa
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