134 A QUESTION ANSWERED 



to us; and on his way to the frontier called to see 

 us and spent two or three hours in conversation with 

 my parents. Then some months later we saw and 

 had a talk with the poor wretch who had come 

 through the agony alive. But although under middle 

 age, he probably did not keep long alive. His un- 

 naturally white drawn face was painful to look at, 

 and he suffered terribly as a result of the hammering 

 blows of hoofs on his body and the wound from the 

 Indian's lance. 



I think that some reader of these memories will put 

 the question : Why did not the military authorities of 

 that country supply the men employed in safeguard- 

 ing the frontiers from Indian attacks with horses 

 drawn from another district — horses that had not 

 imbibed the tradition of terror of the Indian smell? 



The answer is: Because they didn't. 



