Among Men And Horses Author:M. Horace Hayes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Photo, ly M. H. Hayes. CHAPTER III. India—Sport as a Training—Cultivation of Pluck—Conscience—Swadharm —My First Book—Literary Style—Life in India—Rid... more »ing Buckjumpers —Steve Margaret!—Lord Lansdowne—Buckjumping defined—Buffalo Bill—Accidents—Fear of Death—Sir Lyon Playfair—Livingstone— Rustem Pasha—Sir Edward Bradford—Sanson—Madame Dubarry— De Thou—Cartouche—Burman Dakoits—Balthazar Gerard—Effect of Nervous Shock on Animals and on Prize fighters. A FTER I got my commission in the Royal Artillery, -T- I stayed six months at the depot in Sheerness, then exchanged into a field battery which was at Kamptee, and went out to India to join it. The voyage out and back has been so frequently described that I need not allude to it further than to say that I have been three times round the Cape and seven times overland. India. 35 The monotony of the long homeward-bound voyage from India by a sailing ship used to be very pleasantly broken by a day or two's stay at St Helena, at which there was stationed a wing of an infantry regiment, and a battery of Garrison Artillery. Of course, the officers used to have races on this rock, as the French are pleased to call it; in fact, one or two winners were pointed out to me among the crowd of scarecrow ponies which took passengers from the port, James Town, to Le Tombeau, where Napoleon's body was laid for some time, and Longwood, which had been his residence. The native grooms always accompanied their fare for the three or four-mile journey, and kept up, no matter how fast the pace, by hanging on to their animal's tail, the hair of which was of course purposely kept long. The only travellers who now go to St Helena are passengers by the intermediate steamers of the' Castle and Union lines. The island is well worth a visit. India ...« less