. Il ragazzo di viaggiatori in Oceania : le avventure di due giovani in un viaggio per il sandwich, Marquesas, società, e Samoa Isole Feejee, e attraverso le colonie di Nuova Zelanda, Nuovo Galles del Sud, Queensland, Victoria e Tasmania e South Australia. esso fuori le buffonate di strappi cavallo, con asilver semi-dollar sotto ogni ginocchio o in stirru-ps sotto ciascun piede. ENDURANCE DI CAVALLI australiana. 369 cavalli australiana sono accreditati con notevole endurance. Un rideof un centinaio di chilometri tra alba e tramonto non è un wonderfulperformance. Vi è una storia di un uomo che cavalcava un pony un hundredmile

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. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. it out the antics of a bucking horse, with asilver half-dollar under each knee or in the stirru-ps under each foot. ENDURANCE OF AUSTRALIAN HORSES. 369 Australian horses are credited with remarkable endurance. A rideof a hundred miles between sunrise and sundown is not a wonderfulperformance. There is a story of a man who rode a pony a hundredmiles in a day, and then carried it a hundred yards; but it is proper toadd that the pony died from his rough usage. One horse carried hisrider, a Mr. Lord, two hundred and sixty-three miles in three days, andsuffered no ill effects from doing so. The distances made were eighty-eight miles the first day, eighty-three the second, and ninety-two onthe third. Mr. Lord weighed one hundred and ninety-nine pounds, sothat the horse had no feather-weight to carry. We were called away to breakfast before the men had finishedtheir work with the horses, as some were to be reserved for the useof the strangers. Mr. Watson had given orders that the best horses. AN AUSTRALIAN STOCK-RIDER. were to be turned over to us; not the best from the stockmans pointof view, but those of the kindest disposition and least addicted to tricks.A horse without any bad tricks is not easy to find on an Australianstation; if what we were told about their breaking is true, it is nowonder.2i 370 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. There are men who go about breaking horses for eight or ten dol-lars a head. They are regular cow-boys, who cannot be thrown out ofa saddle by any motions the horse may make short of lying down and rolling over them. A lot of younghorses which have never been in ayard twice in their lives are drivenup into an enclosure; a horse isselected, separated from the herd, and driven into a small yard

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