LXXYII 



MIDWAY across the stormy Pacific (a contradictory but 

 accurate description, by-the-way,) one encounters, in the 

 Sandwich Islands, two types of riders quite interesting 

 enough to claim a moment's notice. The first, or bullock- 

 riders, are solely from the people. There is no native 

 horse in Hawaii. The Polynesian first -comers brought 

 cattle with them, but no horses. Those you now find have 

 since been fetched from Australia and California, and bear 

 the European stamp. The bullock is used to a certain ex- 

 tent for saddle- work, for the country paths are, as a rule, 

 too narrow or too ill -kept for vehicles of any kind. He 

 is saddled much as a horse would be, and with a common 

 horn-pommel tree ; he is bridled solely with a nose-ring, 

 the rope from which is passed upward and between his 

 horns to the rider's hands. He is not a fine-bred fellow, 

 this bullock, neither rapid nor easy of gait ; but he serves 

 his turn. The bullock of India might be made a really 

 passable saddle - beast ; not so this one. Still he is em- 

 ployed by the natives both for pack and riding. He walks 

 well, and jogs in a rather clumsy fashion ; and as all bul- 

 locks are more intelligent than you suppose, he is readily 

 guided by moving bridle rope to right or left. 



The other rider may perhaps furnish us with the miss- 

 ing link between the side-saddle of to-day and the seat to 

 which our fin de siecle Amazons aspire. She sits simply 

 and atrociously astraddle. Such a guy as she usually is 

 in her riding-dress it is hard to imagine be she afoot or 



