464 WILD SCENES AND WILD HUNTERS. 
a ‘“Cavayard” of Mexican mares, who are unadulterated 
mustangs, without being instantly struck by the remarkable 
resemblance between the two races. 
You see there the same long, and rather angular. outline; 
the same thin, wavy mane, sometimes. from . two to three feet. 
in length; the same silky coat; the same round, flat hoof, 
the bushy fetlock, and the spur distinctly defined; the same 
round, straight fore-leg and short pasterns; the same gray- 
hound. hams, and somewhat. ragged hips; the same short: 
coupling; the same fine ear, thin head, rather lengthened: 
for symmetry; wide, elastic nostrils, and deep mouth; but 
foremost of all, the prominent socket; the wide-open lid, 
the large eye-ball, lit with a tameless, but not vicious fire, 
with its free play showing the broad stripe of creamy. white ; 
and when they drink, which they do but once a day, the 
same trick of plunging the nostrils up to the eyes in the 
water, and swallowing with huge gulphs. 
Then mount one, and if you can stick there, you will 
find the analogy fully sustained. Day after day, in a long, 
springy gallop, it will carry you eighty or a hundred miles, 
for weeks together, with scarcely a perceptible diminution of. 
spirit or vigor, and requiring nothing with all this but a long 
draught of cool, clear water, and the grass of the prairies. 
This is the mustang as he really is; as he is to be seen in 
thousands multiplied, upon ‘the ocean-like meadows of: the 
great South-West! But such specimens as this are to be 
seldom seen off his native wilds, for the reason I have 
given above; and which must be self-evident, that he is 
seldom taken, and when he has been, is far too valuable to 
the hunter to be parted: with. Mounted upon these magni- 
ficent animals, they take in hundreds the stunted, vicious 
little devils that have given reputation to the mustang’ 
among us! 
Like human hunchbacks these creatures seem to become 
