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round and round like a teetotum. At last I got his 

 head straight, and after a few more buck-jumps, he 

 went off at racing speed, urged by whip and spur. 

 After a stretching gallop of three miles, I rode him 

 quietly back, now and again turning him to accustom 

 him to the bridle-thong, but not venturing to feel 

 his mouth, and then brought him up to the toldo 

 amidst the shouts of the spectators. Orkeke ex- 

 pressed great surprise, and wanted to know where I 

 learned to "domar"; and the gratified owner in- 

 sisted on presenting me with a piece of tobacco.' 



A very rough kind of discipline was that to which 

 the Hon. C. A. Murray subjected an unbroken horse 

 on the North American prairies : 



'My companion V 's Pawnee horse was 



brought up to him by an Indian leading it with a 

 strong laryette ; but as soon as he approached the 

 animal snorted, reared, kicked, and showed every 



sign of spite and anger. If V came near it in 



front, it would run at him with its teeth; and if 

 behind, lashed the air with a pair of very active 



heels. Not being a practised horseman, V could 



not creep behind the animal and spring on it, or 

 perform any similar equestrian manoeuvre; and I, 

 having already mounted my roan, could see that the 

 Indians were beginning to make signs to each other, 

 and to laugh at our predicament. 



'Knowing how dangerous it is among these 

 people to allow yourself to be a subject of ridicule, I 



