Around the world in the yacht Sunbeam; our home on the ocean for eleven months . fineCleveland coach-horses, Suffolk cart-horses and percherons,and some of the young stock. We saw only a few of thebeasts, as at this time they are away feeding on the hills,but I believe they are as good as the horses. Mr. Longhad arranged for us all to ride round the farm, and I wasmounted on a lovely chestnut mare, sixteen hands high,daughter of Fanfaron, and niece to Kettledrum. I shouldhave liked to have bought her and sent her home, but shewas not for sale, though her value was ^^400. Englishhorses here are
Around the world in the yacht Sunbeam; our home on the ocean for eleven months . fineCleveland coach-horses, Suffolk cart-horses and percherons,and some of the young stock. We saw only a few of thebeasts, as at this time they are away feeding on the hills,but I believe they are as good as the horses. Mr. Longhad arranged for us all to ride round the farm, and I wasmounted on a lovely chestnut mare, sixteen hands high,daughter of Fanfaron, and niece to Kettledrum. I shouldhave liked to have bought her and sent her home, but shewas not for sale, though her value was ^^400. Englishhorses here are as dear, in proportion, as native horses arecheap. The latter may be bought for from twenty tosixty dollars apiece; and some of them make capitallittle hacks. We rode all over the farm, attended by half a dozenpeons, who drove the young thorough-bred stock together,in the enormous fields, for us to see, and afterwards didthe same thing with some of the cattle. We also wentthrough the farm buildings, in one part of which wesaw the operation of making lassos. The best are com-. HOIV LASSOS ARE MADE. 167 posed of neatly plaited strips of cured hide, about a quar-ter of an inch wide, the commoner sort being made froman undressed cows hide, with the hair on, cut from thecenter in an ever-increasing circle, sothat they are in one piece, many yardsin length. In another part of the farmthere were a few acres more of flower-gardens, orange-trees, and kitchen-gar-dens. Beautiful as the whole place is, itloses much in interest from its never seem to know where you are, ^Vhat makes Horsesor when you have come to an end. I 2° ^^^ ^^^i^^- hear that Madame Cousino talks of extending the parkstill farther, right up into the mountains, which seemsalmost a pity, as it is already too big to be kept in reallyperfect order, even with a hundred and twenty men em-ployed upon it. Everything is completely surroundedand overgrown with flowers. Even the fields are sepa-rated by hedges of s
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