itt Jftaime llcib anb the (Quicksanb. 



ANY romantic stories have been told by 

 travellers of tbe sagacity, attachment, and 

 instinct displayed by their favourite 

 steeds ; but none, perhaps, has surpassed 

 one related by Captain Mayne Keid. 



That adventurous traveller was journeying in 

 Mexico, on his way to Santa Fe : he had pushed 

 forward with a small party ahead of the caravan 

 by which they were accompanied, desirous to reach 

 the capital a few days in advance of the waggons. 

 The route they took lay, for a hundred miles or so. 

 through a barren desert, without game and almost 

 without water. The buffalo had all disappeared, 

 and deer were equally scarce. They were obliged 

 to content themselves with the dried meat which 

 they had brought with them, now and then looking 

 wistfully after a stray antelope which bounded 

 away from them, keeping far out of range. On 

 the third day after leaving the caravan, the Captain 



