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things related of him, concerning what he did 

 upon horses. The reader will, however, observe, 

 that Sullivan lived in a country where horses 

 were raised as they are in England and in the 

 1^ orthern states : that is, among men and familiar 

 to man. But the horses which I have generally 

 had to deal with, (though I have had every kind,) 

 had been running wild, in the plains and woods, 

 for four, five, six and even ten years, and Avhich, 

 during that time, had never had a rope on them. 

 And besides, the horses of New Spain have always 

 been noted for being remarkably fiery and unman- 

 ageable. I have gentled a horse in Texas, which, 

 before that day had, in all probability, never seen 

 a man — a stud of eight or nine years of age, as 

 wild as a deer when taken an hour before. I be- 

 gan the operation, and ip one hour made him fol- 

 low me without pulling him by the halter, and 

 little boys got upon him bare-backed, and saddled 

 and rode him about : in a word, he was a gentle 

 horse. Those horses are called in Spanish Meste- 

 nos, (pronounced Mestaneyos and not Mustangs.) 

 What makes me think that Sullivan, as well as 

 he that did the same in England a hundred years 

 ago, made use of the same means as I do, is, that 

 when I was now and then breaking a horse, 

 (which generally took me three or four hours, al- 

 though, as I said above, I have done it even in 



