Photo by M. H. Hayes. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Homeward Bound— Blazing Weather— ' Professor ' Norton Smith— The 

 Dublin Horse Show— Jumping— Paris— High School Riding— Baucher 

 — M. Auguste Raux— Gustave— Teaching a Horse to Jump— Horse Tam- 

 ing Competition between Sample and Leon. 



OUR trip round the coast from Natal, and then home 

 by Madeira, was delightful. The sea for the portion 

 of the route south of Gibraltar is generally smooth, and there 

 is really no unpleasant heat even when crossing the equator. 

 Either homeward or outward bound we had not had more than 

 two days hot enough to make us wish to change ordinary 

 English summer clothes for those of lighter material ; and 

 on the warmest nights we were able to sleep ' down below.' 

 In the tropics, the heat far out in the ocean is much less than 

 close to land, which continues to radiate into the surrounding 

 air the caloric it has received from the sun long after that orb 

 has disappeared below the horizon. When the fierce rays of 

 the tropical sun beat down for some hours on rock or sand, 



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