CH. XIII DAUMONT 2 8 3 



Five minutes were allowed for changes in the 

 daytime, and a quarter of an hour at night. 



Plate X. gives a good idea of French posting, and 

 shows the dress of the postilions, with the heavy 

 leather boots into which the feet were slipped, thin 

 shoes and all, at the moment of mounting. 



The English postilion was dressed in a dark 

 jacket and a bright waistcoat, a high, white, beaver 

 hat, breeches, and top-boots. He had an iron guard 

 strapped on the outside of his right boot to save his 

 leg from being bruised by the pole. 



While regular posting has given way, in England, 

 to travelling by rail, there are still a few job-masters 

 in London who, for special service, provide horses 

 and postilions, harnessed and dressed, in the regu 

 lar old-fashioned style. 



Daumont. — When four horses, ridden by two 

 postilions in posting fashion, are attached to a 

 private landau, or barouche with handsome harness, 

 the equipage is called a Daumont, or a la Daumont. 

 Thirty years ago, it was not an uncommon gala turn- 

 out, but it is now confined to royalties on occasions 

 of ceremony. The harnessing is precisely the same 

 as for posting, but the pole of the carriage is usually 

 of iron and bent down in the middle so as to be 

 below the leg of the wheel horse postilion to avoid 

 bruising it. 



The postilions wear round caps instead of hats. 

 When the same carriage is used with two horses 



