20 TAMING HORSES. 



age, or smell, or any other means whatever, that 

 might tend to stupify him, or diminish his natural 

 vigor or spiritedness in the least ; but, on the con- 

 trary, horses thus gentled are fit foi: immediate use, 

 with all their vigor, as they do not become poor 

 and broken down by length of time and bad usage, 

 as it hap23ens with spirited horses gentled in the 

 commo|j way, with much cost and danger. This 

 is not the only advantage of the secret. It enables 

 the most timid man to break a horse, without dan- 

 ger or fear; for it consists in gentling him com- 

 pletely, before you attempt to get on him. 



I have broken an immense number of wild 

 horses, in the Mexican provinces, of the most fiery 

 and spirited dispositions; and have certificates 

 from the President, Vice-President, and many of 

 the most respectable citizens of that Republic, who 

 have been eye-witnesses to this performance. In 

 the City of Mexico, General Maison, Captain 

 Hotchkiss and others, strangers, then in Mexico, 

 have seen me perform. 



This secret, though simple, requires a clear ex- 

 planation, and how to be applied according to 

 the three different kinds of horses: for, though a 

 man should discover enough of the secret to break 

 some of the common horses of this country, he still 

 would meet with many, even here, that he could 

 not break, and would completely fail among the 



