The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-26
BULL FIGHT IN TENERIFFE
SHOCKING AND EXCITING SIGHTS
 OF THE RING.

{ Thrilling Description of the Contests Be- tween Man and Beast Which Are
 Watched With Rated Breath by Thous- | nnds.
 Paying $2 0 head, we entered the bull ring and seated ourselves len la som- bra,'' or on the shady side. Imagine an immense circular building, open to the sky and surrounding a central arena on the model of Roman amphitheatre and you have a plaza de toros"-they are all the same from Madrid to Mex | ico.
 The shrill call of bugle rang through the heated air, and the mur- mur of many voices became suddenly still as the great doors swung back, and the gorgeous troupe, or "cuaderil- la,' rode into the ring. The scene was a kaleidoscopic change of color. Man after man dressed in gorgeous silks, With crimson, green or yellow cloak fiuttering behind him, filed in, and the | braWny chests of the leaders were cov- | SASo lloili llCCh u WdlSJ WlLll JcWClS. Many of these gems were the gifts of governors and deputies, for in Spain and her colonies successful bullight- CT is much better paid than a prime minister-and considerably more re- spected.
 | After the governor had bowed in an- sWer to the salute of raised lances, and thrown down the keys, which the
 maestro caught, the troupe with
 drew, all save two men and few at
 tendants. The former were swathed from waist to ankle in leather, and
 mounted on wornout, blindfolded hors-
 es, while the latter stood beside the circular barricades with brilliant-hued
 cloaks in their hands.
 A sudden hush fell upon the immense
 multitude, and the dry rustic of palm fronds outside came sharply through
 the stiffness as the first picador rode
 slowly into the center of the glaring,
 sun-lit arena. Some one cried 'Iisto!"
 and with below of rage a tawny An dalusian bull, bred from fighting pedi-
 gree and rendered furious by hunger
 and dark confinement bounded into
 the ring. For few moments 1t stood
 half-blinded, paving up the sand, and
 then, lowering it's long, keen horns,
 leaped forward, straight for the
 mounted man. The writer fancied he
 could hear the crowd draw a deep
 breath as the picador drew himself up
 and sat stifly erect, holding the lance
 before him. The trenchant steel met
 the charging bull square in the should
 CT, but the point, being designed to
 torture, not to kill, only ploughed a
 deep groove across it's neck and, roar
 ing savagely while it's shoulders drip
 ped blood, the furious beast charged
 on. The man made futile effort to
 wheel his steed aside, but the poor jade
 was not intended for a display of
 horsemanship-it was only there to be killed. Next moment horse and rider
 went down together before a blow like
 that of battering-ram. and there
 would speedily have been an end of both but that an attendant leaped
 past the bull and waved crimson cloak before it's eyes
 Now, the safety of the "torrero in every encounter is due only to the fact that bull in it's mad fury almost in- variably follows the latest aggressor. Therefore, while the attendant fled
 wildly around the ring with the bull , in chase, his comrades dragged the man from beneath his horse and set the latter on his feet again. Meantime there was confused shouting of Bravo toro!" Core capero" and the like, until the runner swung himself panting over the barricade half sec ond before the dripping horns smote it , with shivering crash
 The second picador, wisely for him.
 self, kept near the barricade, and when
 the bull charged him furiously endeav- ored to avoid the rush. He was toe
 late, however. The keen horns slid into the side of the wretched horse some 3 where beneath the stirrup feathers and 5 both were hurled bodily against the } timbering. The man grasped at the 3 topmost rail, and dragged himself 2 across amid the howls and groans of ! the spectators who would gladly have = seen him killed. while the bull proceeded 2 to gore and trample the life out of the
 helpless steed until capero drew il
 away with his cloa.
 Meanwhile the attendants had beer
 busy plugging the streaming wounds of the first horse with straw and tow . a custom common enough-and now
 they proceeded to urge it forward by stabs and blows, the rider, whose face
 was ashy gray, swaying in his saddle
 There was a good reason for this, as
 we afterward heard; two of his ribs , had been broken in the previous en-
 counter. When the bull charged he
 met it pluckily with the lance, but the l shaft snapped like a pipe-stem,4 ant next moment the pair were dashed one above another to the ground. The ; man lay very quiet and still until ht !, was dragged away, while, in spite ot l the efforts of the caperos, the bull stamped the horse into a shapeless quivering heap. Then the governor raised his hand; bugle announced that scene one was over, and some oi l the British spectators felt curiously : cold and sick Get me out, for heav- 9 ems sake!-Pve seen quite enough, g said one who was visiting the island: for his health; but every passagewa. : was blocked, and we were hemmed il 5 hard and fast.
 l One of the most striking thing. l about the whole scene was the way il 5 which women and young children-anC 7 there were many women of station = among them-smiled and clapped thei t hands in delight at the most revoltins = incidents. Their plaudits, also, wer'
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