xii Contents. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Dan Kingsland Argentine Horses Sample's Second Show in London Another 

 Frost Colonel Pole Carew Taming Horses by Machinery The Love 

 of Englishmen for Horses Lecturing at the Polytechnic Mr Frank 

 Haes The Veterinary Fellowship Degree Bound for South Africa Mr 

 Edwin Ashe Mr W. W. Reade's Cricket Team Miss Genevieve Ward 

 and Mr Vernon, - - - page 21 1 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Horsebreaking in Cape Town Englishmen in South Africa Social Equality 

 No Style Sir Henry Loch Port Elizabeth A Stranded White Man 

 A Cockney and a Mule A Real Showman ' Outside of the Ring, 

 please' Killing Horses Rockwell Driving Tanden without Reins or 

 Traces A Cafe au lait Funker October, the Basuto Kafir Mr Hilton 

 Barber South African Farmers Cauliflowers Three Shillings a Piece 

 South African Horses Horse Sickness Defeated by a Mare Bloem- 

 fontein Orange Free State Boers Colesberg Candlemas and Belladrum 

 Roaring, - 220 



CHAPTER XVII. 



The Diamond Fields Lecturing at Kimberley Badly reported The De Beers 

 Company 'Squaring' Governments 'Trapping' 'I. D. B.' Taking 

 the ' Sulk ' out of a Horse The Horse and the Goat Equine Friend- 

 ships ' Wasters ' and ' Remittance Men ' Captain Goodwood Broken- 

 down Officers Manners and Customs in South Africa The Kimberley 

 Exhibition, 235 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Diamonds, 248 



CHAPTER XIX. 



South African Railways Coaching across the Veldt Driving Twelve in Hand 

 Driver and Guard Food for Horses Oat Hay Temper of South African 

 Horses South African Method of Horsebreaking Horsemanship in 

 South Africa and Australia Tying Horses to Posts in the Streets 

 Knee Haltering The Veldt, 252 



