The Dartmoor Ponies
The Dartmoor Ponies
T WANT you to take a journey with me which I took in imagination a few days ago, as I lay on my back on the sunny moor and watched the…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Tartary
As I was picturing them careering over the plains, another scene presented itself and took their place. Now I no longer saw around me tall…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Russia
Yet here the small long-legged but powerful "Tarpans," the wild horses of the treeless plains of Russia and Tartary, were picking their…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Kulan
The Dartmoor Ponies As I followed them in their course I fancied I saw troops of yet another animal of the horse tribe, the "Kulan," or…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Asiatic
Till about ten years ago the Equus hemionus was the only truly wild horse known, but in the winter of 1879-80 the Russian traveller…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Utah
Come back with me to a time so remote that we cannot measure it even by hundred of thousands of years, and let us visit the territories of…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Europe
They did not, however, during all this time remain confined to America, for, from the time when they arrived at an animal called Miohippus…
The Dartmoor Ponies: Asia
And now, curiously enough, they began to forsake, or to die out in, the land of their birth. Why they did so we do not know; but while in…
The Dartmoor Ponies: English
BELT, T. G., an English traveller of the nineteenth century, best known by his book, "The Naturalist in Nicaragua."
The Dartmoor Ponies: Amazon
WALLACE, A. R., noted English naturalist and traveller, born 1822. Was educated as a land surveyor, but turned his attention exclusively to…