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day, or as far as his physical strength or conve- 

 nience dictates. Numbers of tattoos are kept for 

 hire in some of the bazaars attached to the larger 

 stations, and these with such assistance in private 

 horse-flesh as friends are willing to give easily 

 enable an active man to cross the country rapidly. 

 The tattoos are for the most part, it must be con- 

 fessed, terrible screws, and a fall or two in the 

 course of a day's journey is as much the rule as the 

 exception ; but, considering their life and the state 

 of their pins, they get over their stages, of from ten 

 to fifteen miles, in a wonderful manner not unfre- 

 quently without the rein being drawn. 



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