1 68 ' THE HORSE: ITS TAMING, 



she won his wager that she is to work no more when 

 she gets back to Roto. 



WILD-HORSE HUNTING IN NEW 

 SOUTH WALES. 



Numbers of men make wild-horse hunting the busi- 

 ness of their Hves from year to year. The first wild 

 horses in New South Wales were descended from some 

 that had escaped from early settlers near Sydney. 

 They have increased by thousands in country best 

 suited to them, although the latter-day squatter has 

 done his best to clear them out. During the last 20 

 or 30 years many changes have come about. Country 

 which was waste and peopled only by blacks, is now 

 all taken up, and the wild horse has had to go further 

 inland. As the runs are occupied, the wild horses are 

 mustered, starved out, or shot down, and now only a 

 few districts in the wilder parts of the interior can 

 show them in any numbers. Hunting wild horses, or 

 " brumbies," is a recognised profession amongst bush- 

 men in the far north. 



Many stations in the north depend almost entirely 

 upon the wild horses from which to get a supply of 

 mounts for station work. On one of these stations 



