Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-30
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would sit at table with their guests at the
beginning of the formal meals; instead they
exercised a close personal supervision over
the feast. Our charming hostess, however,
sat at the head of the table
AT O'Clock in the morning we started,
all Of us on fine horses. The day was low
ering and overcast. A dozen dogs were
with us, but only one or two were worth
anything. Three or four ordinary country
men, the ranch hands, or vaqueiros accom-
panied us; they were mainly of Indian blood
and would have been called poems, or cabo-
clos, in other parts of Brazil, but here were
always spoken to and of as "camaradas."
They were, of course, chosen from among
the men who were hunters, and each carried
his long, rather heavy and clumsy jaguar-
spear.
In front rode our vigorous host and his
strapping son, the latter also carrying a
jaguar-spear. The brides and saddles of
the big ranchmen and of the gentlefolk gen
orally were handsome and were elaboratelv
ornamented with silver The stirrups, for
instance, were not only of silver, but con-
tanned so much extra metal in ornamented
bars and rings that they would have been
awkward for less practiced riders. Indeed,
as it was, they were adapted only for the
tips of boots with long pointed toes, and
were impossible for our feet; our hosts STIR
rups were long, narrow silver slippers.
At Home on Horseback.
The camaradas, on the other hand. had
jimcrow saddles and brides, and rusty little
iron stirrups into which they thrust their
naked toes. But ALL gentry and commonal-
ty alike, rode equally we'll and with the same
skill and fearlessness To see Colonel
Roosevelt and Our hosts gallop at headlong
speed over any kind of country toward the
sound of the dogs with their quarry at bay,
or to see them handle their horses in mo-
rass was pleasure.
1t was equally pleasure to see cam
arada carrying his heavy spear leading a
hound in leash, and using his machete to
cut his way through the tangled vne-ropes
of a Jungle all at the same time and all
without the slightest reference to the
plunges, and the odd and exceedingly jerky
behavior of his wild half-broken horse-for
on such a ranch most of the horses are apt
to come in the categories of half-broken or
else of broken-down.
One dusky characterization wore pair of
boots from which he had removed the soles,
his bare, spur-clad feet projecting from be-
meath the uppers He was on a little devil
of a stallion, which he rode blindfold for
couple of miles, and there was regular cir
Gus when he removed the bandage but evil
IDENTIFY it never occurred to him that the ami
mai was hardly comfortable riding horse
for man going out hunting and encum-
bered with a spear, machete and other
belongings. ''lplN
The eight hours that we were OUT we
spent chiefly in splashing across the
marshes, with excursions now and then into
vne-tangled belt and clumps of timber.
Some of the bayous we had to cross were
'uncomfortably Doggy. We had to lead the
horses through one, wadng ahead of them;
and even so two of them mired down, and
their saddles had to be taken off before they
could be gotten out.
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