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in the pan, the gay winged dress which I 

 described in writing from Honolulu. A great 

 many of the foreign ladies in Hawaii have 

 adopted the Mexican saddle also " (this means 

 that they ride astride) ^* for greater security 

 to themselves and ease to their horses on 

 the steep and perilous bridle-tracks, but they 

 wear full Turkish trousers, and jauntily-made 

 dresses reaching to the ankles." 



After leaving the Sandwich Islands she 

 went to the Eocky Mountains, and in a letter 

 dated the 23rd of October, and published in 

 A Lady's Life in the Rochy Mountains, 1879, she 

 writes from the Colorado District, North 

 America : — 



** I rode sidewise till I was well through 

 the town, long enough to produce a severe 

 pain in my spine, which was not relieved for 

 some time even after I had changed my 

 position. It was a lovely Indian summer day, 

 so warm that the snow on the ground looked 

 an incongruity." 



From the fact that many ladies, when in 

 tne Sandwich Islands, ride astride, and that 

 Miss Bird found this position preferable in 



