The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti Page: 72
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72 LIIFE OF BENJAMIN LUNDY.
pen, male in the betforementioned public square, with a
smaller pen adjoinil-g the large one; the larger being
for the hunt, andi tile smaller for keeping the cattle
which were to be huntted. At tlie commencement of
the sport, one of the largest bulls was selected, and in
his neck were stuck, so that lie could see them, two
barbed arrows, eight or ten intles long, with coloured
ribands or papers affixed to them. He was then turned
loose, into the large pen, and there, three, and sometimes
iour men, carrying re(l, and other coloured flags,
would run around him, before him, and at him. One
of these men was the clown, who was painted black.
When the bull was chased to one side of the pen, the
spectators would whip him and sick goads into him.
By these various means, he was at length stung to
madness. Sometimes he would paw and bellow. Then
he would run at the men with the flags, who would
either dodge him, or throw a flag at him. In the latter
case, he would pitch at the flag, and gore it with all his
force; or sometimes he would pass it by, and pursue the
man who had thrown it, who, in order to escape from
his dangerous position, would then jump nimbly on the
fence, and turn a summerset over it. After some time
spent in this way, seven or eight men on horseback
entered the large pen. Each horseman was provided
with a lasso, or long and strong rope, with a slipping
noose at the end. The rest of the cattle were then also
turned into the large pen, and the horsemen dashed
among them, and threw their lassos upon the horns and
the hind feet of the bull that had been worried. His
furious and desperate efforts to get loose were exhibited
for a while; then he was thrown on the ground, the
barbed arrows taken from his neck, and he turned loose,
to be no longer tortured. The operation with the lasso,
is probably in imitation of the mode of catching wild
cattle with that instrument. 0
The second bull in size was then brought out to be
hunted in a similar manner, the rest of the cattle being
put into the smaller pen. This bull was younger and
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Lundy, Benjamin. The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti, book, 1847; Philadelphia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33004/m1/70/?q=american+indian: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.