A Very Small Pair Of Milk-White Bullocks, Attached To A Carriage Of
Corresponding Dimensions, Merely Containing A Seat For Two Persons,
Is A Picturesque And Convenient Vehicle, Which Will Rattle Along The
Roads At A Very Good Pace.
These bullocks usually have bells attached
to their harness, which keep up a perpetual and not disagreeable
jingle.
The distances between the European houses are so great,
and the horses able to do so little work, that it seems a pity that
bullocks should not be deemed proper animals to harness to a shigram
belonging to the saib logue: but fashion will not admit the adoption
of so convenient a means of paying morning visits, and thus sparing
the horses for the evening drive.
Great complaints are made about the high price and the inferiority of
the horses purchaseable in Bombay, a place in which the Arab is not
so much esteemed as I had expected. Some difficulty was experienced
in obtaining very fine specimens of this far-famed race for the Queen,
who gave a commission for them. I had the pleasure of seeing four that
are going home in the Paget, destined for her Majesty's stables.
The Imaum of Muscat lately sent a present of horses to Bombay, but
they were not of high caste; those I have mentioned, as intended for
the Queen, being of a much finer breed. They are beautiful creatures,
and are to be put under the care of an English groom, who has the
charge of some English horses purchased in London for a native Parsee
gentleman.
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