CHAPTER XVI. 



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

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

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

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

 Traces — A Cafe aa 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 — 

 Bloemfontein — Orange Free State Boers — Colesberg — Candlemas and 

 Belladrum — Roaring. 



SLEEPY, old, semi-Dutch Cape Town looked a terribly 

 unpromising place in which to start a horse show. Like 

 at Singapore, all the residents (to use an Irishism) lived out 

 of it. During the day, they worked in their offices, like bees 

 in their hives ; but by six o'clock in the evening, they had 

 flitted to their homes miles away in the picturesque surround- 

 ing country, leaving the streets empty of carriage and rider. 

 Their horses were mostly of the uncomplaining, spiritless 

 slave sort. Very few of the owners of these animals rode, 



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