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wool, and ftained or dyed with one or more colours, 

 which they name Peilhon, and fecure the whole with a 

 fecond girth. The llirrups are fmall and narrow, as 

 they never put the foot beyond the toe, even thofe 

 whofe feet are bare and naked. 



Their bits are of iron, without bofTes, and formed of 

 one piece. The reins are compofed of many fmall flraps 

 of leather joined together, and are at leaft fix or feven 

 feet long, being intended to ferve for whips as well as 

 for reins. A piece of iron, in the fhape of half a cir- 

 cle, furrounds the lower jaw, afts as a curb, and pro- 

 duces the fame eflfeft. Riding is fo common and fre- 

 quent at Monte-Video^ that the women are as praftifed and 

 fkilful as the men ; and by their addrefs and a(5tivity 

 feem to juftify the ancient hiftory of thofe renowned 

 female warriors, the Amazons *. 



Page 241. " You chufe rather to maim,"] &c. 

 HoUinfhed fpeaks of an Englifli nobleman's Bob-tail- 

 ings as he calls it, a fine horfe, that his friends might 

 not afk it of him ; which proves what a detriment and 

 blemifli it was to an horfe at that time (the reign of 

 Elizabeth) not to have his tail full and complete. 



• Hiftoire d'un Voyage aux Ifles Maloiiines, &c. a Paris, 1770. 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



