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fpedators of the danger I rode in for fome 

 weeks, that he was abfolutely not to be fub- 

 dued, and they politively advifed me to aban- 

 don the undertaking ; but the inftindlive fpi- 

 rit of attachment to that induftrious motto, 

 ** Persevere and Conquer/* encouraged 

 me to continue my original plan, which I 

 have repeatedly explained, and moft forcibly 

 recommend ; for under that fyftem of fteady 

 and unremitting firmnefs, diverted of vio- 

 lence, and blended with intervening ads of 

 tender encouragement, he is become one of 

 the fteadieft and moft temperate hunters in 

 the field ; though it is plainly perceptible by 

 the agitation fo conftantly difplayed in the 

 eye, the eat\ and action, upon the approach 

 of every Jlrajiger^ that he had repeatedly ex- 

 perienced the fevere effefts of bodily abufe 

 and ill uGige before he came into the tempe- 

 rate region of my poffeffion. 



•^. 

 Thefe cafes are not introduced from any 

 motive of vanity, to blazon my own pradlice 

 with the ftamp of perfedlion in fafliionable 

 *' feats of horfemanfcip/' but to afford expe- 

 rimental, demonftrative, and incontrovertible 

 proof, founded upon repeated perfonal trials 



of 



