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 Tandem 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 

 Bloemfontein Orange Free State Boers Colesberg Candlemas and 

 Belladrum Roaring. 



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LEEPY, old, semi-Dutch Cape Town looked a terribly 

 unpromising place in which to start a horse show. Like 

 at Singapore, all the residents (to use an Irishism) lived out 

 of it. During the day, they worked in their offices, like bees 

 in their hives ; but by six o'clock in the evening, they had 

 flitted to their homes miles away in the picturesque surround- 

 ing country, leaving the streets empty of carriage and rider. 

 Their horses were mostly of the uncomplaining, spiritless 

 slave sort. Very few of the owners of these animals rode, 



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