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black cow was lassoed by an Indian, with 

 his lasso tied to his horse's tail, and she very 

 nearly overturned my horse by the violence 

 with which she was rolled over. Such a she- 

 devil as she turned out to be, I never saw ; 

 she was jet black, and had lost one of her 

 horns ; but it is impossible to describe what 

 a fury she was ; but I had no time to lose, 

 for I had resolved to have the bull if pos- 

 sible. I was on the left-quarter of the beast, 

 and my Indian on the right, both swinging 

 our lassos round our heads, when he asked 

 me to throw, as he was afraid of his horse's 

 tail ; I having given him a handsome iron 

 grey a short time before. 



I lassoed him exactly by the horns, and 

 my young horse behaved as well as if he 

 had been born and bred in Chili ; for down 

 came the bull completely stunned, and as his 

 heels flew up my companion lassoed his hind- 

 legs, so as to stretch him out. Before the 

 bull had recovered the shock we had dis- 

 mounted, and the horses keeping the strain 

 on him, we disengaged one of his hind-legs 

 and secured it by a hide thong to his horns, 

 and having cast off the lassoes, left him on 

 the ground, and went to give assistance 

 where wanted. The remainder had been 



