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he would be dashed to pieces, but they stopped the 

 windlass with his knees within two inches of the 

 pavement. The rest were safely landed in the box. 

 They had a capital passage, had never been off their 

 feed, and were looking beautiful — better than our 

 horses at home. We did very well with some of 

 them. 



Cost Sold for 



£50 Rurie ;^i30 



33 Lofty 85 



40 Gray horse 74 



24 Chestnut 100 



40 Bay mare 80 



55 At cost price I kept a bay horse ... 55 



40 Black horse at 60 



Three or four of them were small light horses. 

 The arrangement with Gow was, he was to charge 

 half price for their keep till sold and to have half 

 profit. This being about the first lot that came over 

 the expense was very great, as he had to fit up the 

 ship on purpose. It cost about ^20 a horse. 



I wrote Pattison, "Send them bigger". He 

 replied, " I have sent the two best horses in the 

 country, cost £go each, a very big price in this 

 country". He sent six in this lot. They had a 

 dreadfully bad passage ; one of the best horses was 

 chucked overboard, and the other died the day 

 after they landed. The others had all the hair 

 rubbed off their quarters and tails and looked 

 wretched. They had to be kept a long time before 

 fit to show and only fetched about cost price. That 

 ended the speculation as far as I was concerned. 



While Pattison was staying with me he got a 



