The Rashīdī History 213.5

213.5

One day, owing to the necessity of a foray, we had ridden faster than usual. On waking [next morning] I saw that there were very few horses in our camp, and [on inquiring] ascertained that more than 2000 had died in the night. Of my own stable there were twenty-four special [riding] horses, all of which were missing. Twenty-one of them had died during that night. Horses are very subject [qarabat] to dam-giri. I have never heard of this disease outside Tibet. No remedy is known for it.