CHAPTER IV. 



THE CONQUEST OF THE HORSE. 



We have now some vague idea of the ancient 

 horse ; so it is well we should know what 

 manner of man was the savage who caught and 

 tamed him. 



Living a great deal, and travelling much 

 alone among savages I have been more or less 

 tolerated ; and the savage has told me what he 

 thinks of the white man. He looks upon the 

 scientist as an amateurish unpractical sort of 

 person who cannot ride or cook. The mission- 

 ar}^ can be profitably humbugged. The tourist 

 is a source of revenue but apt to be intrusive 

 and ill-mannered. As to the cinema folk, one 

 tribe of savages refused to play any more 

 because they were defeated in every film. 

 They were granted one massacre of the whites 

 to cheer them up. 



So the scientific men, the missionary, the 

 cinema people and many others bring home 

 impressions which would amuse the savage. 



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