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The vessels usually contained from forty fifty Circassian, Georgian and Mingrelian slave girls, lovely creatures selected for the harems of the Sultan and the wealthy Pashas of Constantinople. The slaves thus captured were given to the Cossacks of the Kuban for wives; hence the sons and daughters of Schamyl's fierce opponents are as much Circassian as Cossack. The combination is a "strain" of horsemanship that has produced starling and unique results in the form of riders capable of really marvelous feats of a kind never before seen outside of Russia. Visitors to the Wild West who have marveled at the skill of th Indians and the Cowboys with the bucking mustangs, will marvel anew at the striking performances of these descendants of the famous "Mazeppa".
SOUTH AMERICAN GAUCHOS AT THE "WILD WEST".
The latest additions to BUFFALO BILL'S "WILD WEST" make the sixth delegation to the "Congress of the Rough Riders of the World", which MESSERS CODY and SALBURRY are organizing in order to present the different schools of horsemanship at the Chicago World's Fair.
Having seen the performances of the Cowboy, the Indian, the Vaquero, and lastly, of the Cossacks of the Caucasian line, our appetites are considerably whetted at the prospect of seeing how wild life of the South American Pampas contrasts with theirs.
To the student of human progress, of racial peculiarities, of national characteristics the Gaunchos are a subject of investigation as remarkable as anything modern history has to show.
The Gaucho are the descedants of the early Spanish colonizers of the South American wilds. The fiery Hispanolian temperament, the infusion of the native Indian blood, together with the wild lonely life on the ocean-like pampas, are the conditions responsible for the production of the Gauchos.
Like the North American Indian, the Cowboy, the Vaquero, the Cossack, and the Prairie Scout, now for the first time in history his companion horsemen, the Gaucho is a near approach to the mythical centaur. Like them the Gaucho spends the greater portion of his life on horseback, and is associated with the wild equines of the pampas in even a more intense degree than any of the equistrian races.
In no other part of the world has man been so completely dependent on the horses as on the South American plains. The pampas without horses would be, for the uses of man, as an ocean without ships or boats. Hence this Gaucho breed of centaur is the natural growth of peculiar surroundings.
As the Gauchos are reputed to be the most experts lassoers in the world, considerable interest is manifested in their arrival, not only by the public, but by the Cowboys Indians, etc. Apart from their wild fantastic personality of dress, manner, and equipment, and their horsemanship, the Gauchos will be interested as the first to introduce to the public the use of the "bolas", for the capturing of wild animals. This instrument | 5755
The vessels usually contained from forty fifty Circassian, Georgian and Mingrelian slave girls, lovely creatures selected for the harems of the Sultan and the wealthy Pashas of Constantinople. The slaves thus captured were given to the Cossacks of the Kuban for wives; hence the sons and daughters of Schamyl's fierce opponents are as much Circassian as Cossack. The combination is a "strain" of horsemanship that has produced starling and unique results in the form of riders capable of really marvelous feats of a kind never before seen outside of Russia. Visitors to the Wild West who have marveled at the skill of th Indians and the Cowboys with the bucking mustangs, will marvel anew at the striking performances of these descendants of the famous "Mazeppa".
SOUTH AMERICAN GAUCHOS AT THE "WILD WEST".
The latest additions to BUFFALO BILL'S "WILD WEST" make the sixth delegation to the "Congress of the Rough Riders of the World", which MESSERS CODY and SALBURRY are organizing in order to present the different schools of horsemanship at the Chicago World's Fair.
Having seen the performances of the Cowboy, the Indian, the Vaquero, and lastly, of the Cossacks of the Caucasian line, our appetites are considerably whetted at the prospect of seeing how wild life of the South American Pampas contrasts with theirs.
To the student of human progress, of racial peculiarities, of national characteristics the Gaunchos are a subject of investigation as remarkable as anything modern history has to show.
The Gaucho are the descedants of the early Spanish colonizers of the South American wilds. The fiery Hispanolian temperament, the infusion of the native Indian blood, together with the wild lonely life on the ocean-like pampas, are the conditions responsible for the production of the Gauchos.
Like the North American Indian, the Cowboy, the Vaquero, the Cossack, and the Prairie Scout, now for the first time in history his companion horsemen, the Gaucho is a near approach to the mythical centaur. Like them the Gaucho spends the greater portion of his life on horseback, and is associated with the wild equines of the pampas in even a more intense degree than any of the equistrian races.
In no other part of the world has man been so completely dependent on the horses as on the South American plains. The pampas without horses would be, for the uses of man, as an ocean without ships or boats. Hence this Gaucho breed of centaur is the natural growth of peculiar surroundings.
As the Gauchos are reputed to be the most experts lassoers in the world, considerable interest is manifested in their arrival, not only by the public, but by the Cowboys Indians, etc. Apart from their wild fantastic personality of dress, manner, and equipment, and their horsemanship, the Gauchos will be interested as the first to introduce to the public the use of the "bolas", for the capturing of wild animals. This instrument |
