Contents. xi 



CHAPTER X. 



Gibraltar— Malta — Duke of York — Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh— Cairo — 

 Colonel Valentine Baker — General Grenfell — Horses in Egypt — Ceylon 

 and its Planters — Breaking a Jibber — The Spanish Mail — Tubbing — 

 Singapore — Mr Harry Abrams — Horses from Western Australia — Horse- 

 breaking — Savage Horses — Wood Flooring for Stables, - - page 137 



CHAPTER XL 



The Blue Funnel Line — ' We have never lost a Passenger ' — Lascar Crews — 

 Steering on Land — Chinese Boatmen — Hong Kong — China Ponies — 

 Racing in China — Buckstone and Tim Whiffler — Mr Fraser Smith — 

 Bandmann — Shanghai — Mongolian Ponies — Mr Kelly Maitland — Small 

 Feet — Society in Shanghai — Shanghai Race Club — Horsebreaking at 

 Shanghai — Rickshaws — Gambling for Food — Tientsin — Mr Butler — Mafoos 

 — The French Mail — Japan — Hotels and Food, - - - - 150 



CHAPTER XII. 



Return to India — Starting a Newspaper — Society in India — The Counter Test 

 — Planters — Life in Calcutta — Public Opinion in India — Indian Officials 

 — Amateur Actors — Miss Amy Sherwin — Mr Rudyard Kipling as a 

 Flatterer, 178 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Importation of Colonial Horses into India — Horse Dealing at Calcutta — The 

 Saddle selling the Horse — Horses on Board Ship — Mr More on Lord 

 Combermere — Saddles — Colonial Horse Dealers — Mr John Stevens- 

 Maoris — Teddy Weekes — Kerouse — Treatment of Sprains in Horses — 

 Racing in India — The Apcars — Lord William Beresford — Paper-Chasing 

 — A Jingle — India as a School for Riding, 186 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Frank Fillis — Bill Hayes — Mickey Miley — Horse Photography — Journalism in 

 India — Shows in India — Mr Woodyear — Arthur Hancock — Captain Astley 

 ' The Mates" Brother, 201 



