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would be astonished at offering a horse on a journey nothing to refresh himself but a roll in the 

 dust!"* 



" A very pleasing farmer put his own and his son's riding-horses in a cart and took us for a 

 little drive. At a hard gallop (with the mildest and steadiest air and with perfect safety), he 

 took us right across the country ; over bushes, ditches (there were no fences), lumps of rock, 

 watercourses, we jumped, flew, bounded, and up every hill we went at racing pace. I arrived at 



home much bewildered, but Mr. M 's pleasant face was quite undisturbed, and I was assured 



that such was the way Cape farmers always drove." f 



• Lady Barkley's Journal. f Lady Duff Gordon's L etters from the Cape. 



