xii Contents. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Dan Kingsland — Argentine Horses — Sample's Second Show in London — Another 

 Frost — Colonel Pole Carew — Taming Horses by Machinery — The Love 

 of Englishmen for Horses — Lecturing at the Polytechnic — Mr Frank 

 Haes — The Veterinary Fellowship Degree — Bound for South Africa — Mr 

 Edwin Ashe — Mr W. W. Reade's Cricket Team — Miss Genevieve Ward 

 and Mr Vernon, page 211 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Horsebreaking in Cape Town — Englishmen in South Africa — Social Equality 

 —No Style— Sir Henry Loch— Port Elizabeth— A Stranded White Man 

 — A Cockney and a Mule — A Real Showman — 'Outside of the Ring, 

 please' — Killing Horses — Rockwell — Driving Tanden without Reins or 

 Traces — A Cafi ati lait Funker — October, the Basuto Kafir — Mr Hilton 

 Barber — South African Farmers — Cauliflowers Three Shillings a Piece 

 — South African Horses — Horse Sickness — Defeated by a Mare — Bloem- 

 fontein — Orange Free State Boers — Colesberg — Candlemas and Belladrum 

 — Roaring, ----------- 220 



CHAPTER XVII. 



The Diamond Fields— Lecturing at Kimberley — Badly reported — The De Beers 

 Company — 'Squaring' Governments — 'Trapping' — 'I. D. B.' — Taking 

 the ' Sulk ' out of a Horse — The Horse and the Goat — Equine Friend- 

 ships — ' Wasters ' and ' Remittance Men ' — Captain Goodwood — Broken- 

 down Officers — Manners and Customs in South Africa — The Kimberley 

 Exhibition, 235 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

 Diamonds, - 248 



CHAPTER XIX. 



South African Railways — Coaching across the Veldt — Driving Twelve in Hand — 

 Driver and Guard — Food for Horses — Oat Hay — Temper of South African 

 Horses — South African Method of Horsebreaking — Horsemanship in 

 South Africa and Australia — Tying Horses to Posts in the Streets — 

 Knee Haltering— The Veldt, - - - 252 



