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round and round like a teetotum. At last I got his 

 head straight, and after a few more buck-jumps, he 

 went off at racing speed, urged by whip and spur. 

 After a stretching gallop of three miles, I rode him 

 quietly back, now and again turning him to accustom 

 him to the bridle-thong, but not venturing to feel 

 his mouth, and then brought him up to the toldo 

 amidst the shouts of the spectators. Orkeke ex- 

 pressed great surprise, and wanted to know where I 

 learned to "domar"; and the gratified owner in- 

 sisted on presenting me with a piece of tobacco.' 



A very rough kind of discipline was that to which 

 the Hon. C. A. Murray subjected an unbroken horse 

 on the North American prairies : 



'My companion V 's Pawnee horse was 



brought up to him by an Indian leading it with a 

 strong laryette ; but as soon as he approached the 

 animal snorted, reared, kicked, and showed every 



sign of spite and anger. If Y came near it in 



front, it would run at him with its teeth; and if 

 behind, lashed the air with a pair of very active 



heels. Not being a pi*actised horseman, V could 



not creep behind the animal and spring on it, or 

 perform any similar equestrian manoeuvre; and I, 

 having already mounted my roan, could see that the 

 Indians were beginning to make signs to each other, 

 and to laugh at our predicament. 



' Knowing how dangerous it is among these 

 people to allow yourself to be a subject of ridicule, I 



