Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-11-06
THE HORSE
BY JOSEPH BATIELL
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ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY
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horse in those countries to which they
pcusal shows that neither Abraham Isaac
kept whilst they dwc the land OF Canaan but
used asses probably because they better
adapted o the country.
On two costly prcscntsom foreign
Abmcech prince the northern confines OF Ara
ba Pctrpa king Egypt gave him sheep and
and maid and the latter added andcames
but horses do appear among the gifts Abmccch living IN a
similar country that fin which Abraham lived and under similar
conditions probably did have horses HIMSELF would have been
enough Pharahoh include horses his gift that they
would not have been desirable acquisition to Abraham
Winter in his excellent work on the horse says:
Asses highly esteemed in Palestine than
horses before stated and people OF the first quality
commonly rode them Deborah her describes the
great powerful oac by the expression We that ride on white
present day. breed white celebrated for
excellence This cultivated with the
greatest and is supposed by Lieut. Col Smith to be
ccnt the time OF the kings OF Judah Jar OF (cad had thirty
upon many and commanded in thirty cities
Abdon judges Israel had forty and thirty grand
who rode seventy
previously forbidden the horses
Of their being untitled to the country than asses
good deal known concerning the ancient history OF Egypt
gathered proanc and sacred history and from the hcogphcs
anccnmonumcnts including the pyramids From these
appears that time the country invaded by strangers
who the H Shepherds that they elected
OF their number king and became the dominant ora period
varous estimated 500 and years All dates in Egyptian
history very The advent these Shepherds is by
placed $500 C. and by others B. C.
to accepted when finally they driven from
Egypt they withdrew into Syria and the date OF their departure
fixed at about 500 B. c.
AT the time Joseph wagons the land OF Canaan
to bring Jacob and his their wives and children to Egypt on
the famine in their The account does not
that these wagons drawn by horses but during the
famine that followed that horses first mentioned having been
taken by Joseph from the Egyptians in exchange for provision
Again, the death OF Jacob in Egypt is stated that his funeral
attended by both chariots and horsemen
William Henry Herbert who the idea OF African origin
OF the horse his Horse OF America refers the above facts
and
From these considerations the that so late
years had still hoes-as
certain while Solomon imported from Arabia silver and gold
and spices Egypt only that he procured horses for his
cavalry and that of the allied kings OF Ph~ncaI conclude
that others than these very Shepherd kings Egypt de
crbed dynasty ofnvadng conquerors stranger termed
the H whose origin unknown, who introduced the horse
Lower Egypt and that this period that country became the
principal breeding district and emporium of that noble animal
1T may be that these ywcre ntruders from the por
ton OF Abyssina bordering Upper Egypt where there still
exists the Kingdoms Dongoa very superior
breed OF b and that thence that they introduced the horse
into Egypt which auredy does possess such extensive tracts
of native pasture meadow lands alone adapted the
istencc OF this animal in and OF freedom
And again he writes:
The Taaan breed which wild countless
from the neghborhood the Noga the barren and nhospabc
cppcs Upper Asia the provinces China
clearly traced to the cavalry horses employed the siege OF Azo
in 1857 which turned loose for forage and have pro-
pagaed their species with uncxampd ap unless be equaed
by that which has peoped all South America and all the spac
east to the Mssspp with the descendants either ecmanci
pated voluntarily released OF the Spanish horses first introduced
into the southern continent in 1897.
Africa however, wild horses still roam untamed far
to the southwark OF the desert of Sahara the country M
dama where they by Mungo Park great
that district there extends range fertile wcwaccd grassy
in part wooded country to NubN and Upper Absn' whence
my opinion the horse first introduced into Egypt
into Arabia, Europe and the East"
This fairly good guessing but locality