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The Nineteenth Century , No 182, Apr 1892 [‎90v] (185/244)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (120 folios). It was created in Apr 1892. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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THE NINETEENTH
April
If anyone has driven through the country surrounding Eadautz,
and met the countless light waggons laden with farm produce or
timber, or been in Eadautz on a market day, and pushed his way
through these gentle little beasts munching gourds while their
masters are sitting on the ground eating their midday meal of greasy
mess, or devouring what looked to be plates of dried sticklebacks, he
will realise of what vast importance it is to the people to have a good
breed of these ponies maintained.
The ordinary number of horses in the Eadautz stud of 1,350 is
somewhat less at present, as last year sixty-four mares and four
stallions were sent from Eadautz to form the new Government stud
at Biber, in Styria.
Undoubtedly the chief features of Eadautz are its collection of
mares and stallions crossed and recrossed with either pure or half-bred
Arab blood for the last hundred years, and its facility for producing
untiring sure-footed animals, the result of their ranging in summer
at freedom over the wild plateaux of the Carpathians, plateaux which
sometimes extend to twenty miles in length, and where, travel
ling in charge of their mounted chicos from one feeding ground to
another, they often cover from 400 to 500 miles in their summer 's
run.
The nearest mountain station is some ninety miles from Eadautz,.
The horses travel in herds of about 400 each, six chicos being in
charge of each hundred horses; and when the grazing grounds are
reached, half of the chicos remain on duty for twenty-four consecu
tive hours, to have their places taken in turn by the other half, who
ride up from their little wooden sleeping huts, which may be several
hours away.
The horses require no driving, but in each case follow their own
leaders, who in their turn follow the leading chico. Each night three
huge fires are lit, and I am told that the horses always like to come
near the fires for the sake of the warmth, as the nights in this part
of the Carpathians are generally cool.
In the entire country about 2,000 Eadautz stallions are now
stationed, for which the service fee ranges from one to five florins;
but rarely are the people asked to pay more than one or two florins,
and there is a further provision to let out stallions on the following
terms. The commandant assesses the price of a stallion at, say, from
1,500 to 3,000 florins; anyone can then take the horse on paying
ten per cent, on this capital value, if he only keeps the stallion for the
covering season, or six per cent, if he keeps it for the entire year, on
the condition of its serving a certain number of mares. This custom
is chiefly prevalent in Galicia, a great horse-breeding country, in some
districts not unlike parts of Ireland, where now 450 Eadautz stallions
are stationed, and where often a landowner may be compelled by a

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The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died.

The article he and his wife were reading has been marked on the cover 'Prospects of Marriage for Women, by Miss Clara E Collet' which appears on folios 24-31.

A second annotation, written by Sir William Henry Rhodes Green, gives the date of Lewis Pelly's death and is provided as context to Lady Pelly's comments.

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1 volume (120 folios)
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The journal contains one set of foliation and three sets of original pagination.

The principal foliation for this volume appears in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio, using a pencil number enclosed with a circle.

The three sets of original printed pagination that appear are as follows:

The advertisments at the front of the journal are paginated as i-xxxii; the articles themselves are paginated as 525-712; and the Sampson Low, Marston & Company publications list at the rear of the journal has been paginated as 1-8.

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