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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.11637#0323
AND LOWER EG Y ?T. 295
When the rider alights, a groom leads about his
horse, till he remounts ; and however short a ride
he may have taken, the horse is never allowed to
enter ,the stable till he has been walked about in
this manner, a sufficient time to have grown cool
and recovered his breath. This precaution appears
to be a general practice throughout the East. In
this part of the world too, horses are constantly
rubbed down with the greatest care, and frequently
washed. These attentions sufficiently shew the
value set upon the animal about which they are
employed. Their food likewise differs as much
from that of horses in the West, as the methods of
riding and managing them. They never touch
either hay or oats, eating nothing but chopped
straw and barley. All, when in the stable, have
their heads perfectly at liberty, without any kind of
halter about them, which secures this handsome
part of the horse from the defects often occasioned
in Europe by the weight or improper construction
of the halter. In the stable, as well as in the field,
ihey are kept on their feet by a rope fastened to a
stake driven into the ground behind them. Their
hoofs, too, are not loaded with thick heavy pieces
of iron: a semicircle, without any cramps or turn-
ing down at the ends, covers them lightly, and is
sufficient to defend them from harm HJ countries
where there are neither muddy roads nor pave-
ments. Besides, it is known, that in hot countries
v 4 horses
When the rider alights, a groom leads about his
horse, till he remounts ; and however short a ride
he may have taken, the horse is never allowed to
enter ,the stable till he has been walked about in
this manner, a sufficient time to have grown cool
and recovered his breath. This precaution appears
to be a general practice throughout the East. In
this part of the world too, horses are constantly
rubbed down with the greatest care, and frequently
washed. These attentions sufficiently shew the
value set upon the animal about which they are
employed. Their food likewise differs as much
from that of horses in the West, as the methods of
riding and managing them. They never touch
either hay or oats, eating nothing but chopped
straw and barley. All, when in the stable, have
their heads perfectly at liberty, without any kind of
halter about them, which secures this handsome
part of the horse from the defects often occasioned
in Europe by the weight or improper construction
of the halter. In the stable, as well as in the field,
ihey are kept on their feet by a rope fastened to a
stake driven into the ground behind them. Their
hoofs, too, are not loaded with thick heavy pieces
of iron: a semicircle, without any cramps or turn-
ing down at the ends, covers them lightly, and is
sufficient to defend them from harm HJ countries
where there are neither muddy roads nor pave-
ments. Besides, it is known, that in hot countries
v 4 horses