MR. RAREY'S MODE OF SUBDUING HORSES- COMPARED WITH THAT PRACTISED IN SOUTH AMERICA 24 HORSEMANSHIP-A JUST SEAT-A LIGHT HAND-THEIR ADVANTAGES IN RIDING, IN LEAPING, IN GALLOPING OVER ROUGH GROUND, IN GOING FAST DOWN HILL, IN A JUMP INTO A STONE-QUARRY-THE MAMELUKE'S LEAP OUT OF THE CITADEL OF CAIRO-LETTER FROM GEN. MODE, IN NORTHERN PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, OF RIDING OVER THE ANDES, ON A RED INDIAN. QUERY, which IS "THE SAVAGE?" To face page THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. THE HORSE. In almost every region of the globe, not only on its surface, but at different depths beneath it, the history of the horse is recorded. "Fossil remains," says Colonel Hamilton Smith in the twelfth volume of the Naturalist's Library, "of the horse have been found in nearly every part of the world. His teeth lie in the Polar ice along with the bones of the Siberian mammoth; in the Himalaya mountains with lost, and but recently obtained, genera; in the caverns of Ireland; and, in one instance, from Barbary, completely fossilized. His bones, accompanied by those of the elephant, rhinoceros, tiger, and hyæna, rest by thousands in the caves in Constadt; in Sevion at Argenteuil with those of the mastodon; in Val d'Arno and on the borders of the Rhine with colossal urus." But what is most deserving of attention is that while all the other genera and species, found under the same conditions, have either ceased to exist, or have removed to higher temperatures, the horse alone has remained to the present time in the same regions, without, it would appear, any protracted interruption; fragments of his skeleton continuing to be traced upwards, in successive |