One Or Two Of The Sailors Had Got On Horseback,
But Being Rather Indifferent Horsemen, And The Spaniards Having
Given Them Vicious Horses, They Were Soon Thrown, Much To The
Amusement Of The People.
A half dozen Sandwich Islanders,
from the hide-houses and the two brigs, who are bold riders,
were dashing about on the full gallop, hallooing and laughing
like so many wild men.
It was now nearly sundown, and S - - - and myself went into a
house and sat quietly down to rest ourselves before going down to
the beach. Several people were soon collected to see "los Ingles
marineros," and one of them - a young woman - took a great fancy to
my pocket handkerchief, which was a large silk one that I had
before going to sea, and a handsomer one than they had been in
the habit of seeing. Of course, I gave it to her; which brought
us into high favor; and we had a present of some pears and other
fruits, which we took down to the beach with us. When we came
to leave the house, we found that our horses, which we left tied
at the door, were both gone. We had paid for them to ride down
to the beach, but they were not to be found. We went to the man
of whom we hired them, but he only shrugged his shoulders, and
to our question, "Where are the horses?" only answered - "Quien
sabe?" but as he was very easy, and made no inquiries for the
saddles, we saw that he knew very well where they were.
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