INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This book is somewhat in the nature of an autobiography, covering as it does almost the whole of the Author's life. The main portion of the volume is devoted to cattle ranching in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The Author has also included a record of his travels abroad, which he hopes will prove to be not uninteresting; and a chapter devoted to a description of tea planting in India.

CONTENTS

CHAP.PAGE
I. Tea Planting[13]
In Cachar—Apprenticeship—Tea Planting
described—Polo—In Sylhet—Pilgrims at Sacred
Pool—Wild Game—Amusements—Rainfall—Return to
Cachar—Scottpore—Snakes—A Haunted Tree—Hill
Tribes—Selecting a Location—Return to England.
II. Cattle Ranching in Arizona[42]
Leave for United States of America—Iowa—New
Mexico—Real Estate Speculation—Gambling—Billy the
Kid—Start Ranching in Arizona—Description of
Country—Apache and other Indians—Fauna—Branding
Cattle—Ranch Notes—Mexicans—Politics—Summer
Camp—Winter Camp—Fishing and Shooting—Indian Troubles.
III. Cattle Ranching in Arizona (continued)[81]
The Cowboy—Accoutrements and Weapons—Desert
Plants—Politics and
Perjury—Mavericks—Mormons—Bog Riding.
IV. Odds and Ends[103]
Scent and Instinct—Mules—Roping
Contests—Antelopes—The Skunk—Garnets—Leave
Arizona.
V. Ranching in New Mexico[117]
The Scottish Company—My Difficulties and Dangers—Mustang
Hunting—Round-up described—Shipping Cattle—Railroad
Accidents—Close out Scotch Company's Interests.
VI. Odds and Ends[152]
Summer Round-up Notes—Night Guarding—Stampedes—Bronco
Busting—Cattle Branding, etc.
VII. On my own Ranch[170]
Locating—Plans—Prairie Fires and
Guards—Bulls—Trading—Successful
Methods—Loco-weed—Sale of Ranch.
VIII. Odds and Ends[198]
The "Staked Plains"—High Winds—Lobo
Wolves—Branding—Cows—Black Jack—Lightning and
Hail—Classing Cattle—Conventions—"Cutting" versus
Polo—Bull-Fight—Prize-Fights—River and Sea
Fishing—Sharks.
IX. In Amarillo[226]
Purchase of Lots—Building—Boosting a Town.
X. First Tour Abroad[234]
Mexico—Guatemala—Salvador—Panama—Colombia—Venezuela
—Jamaica—Cuba—Fire in Amarillo—Rebuilding.
XI. Second Tour Abroad[250]
Bermudas—Switzerland—Italy—Monte
Carlo—Algiers—Morocco—Spain—Biarritz and Pau.
XII. Third Tour Abroad[256]
Salt Lake
City—Canada—Vancouver—Hawaii—Fiji—Australia—New
Zealand—Tasmania—Summer at Home.
XIII. Fourth Tour Abroad[270]
Yucatan—Honduras—Costa
Rica—Panama—Equador—Peru—Chile—Argentina—Brazil—Teneriffe.
XIV. Fifth Tour Abroad[287]
California—Honolulu—Japan—China—Singapore—Burmah—India—Ceylon—The
End.
Appendix[317]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

One of the "Boys" (see page [125])[Frontispiece]
Plucking Tea Leaf[20]
Nagas[37]
Roping a Grizzly[70]
A Shooting Scrape[76]
One of our Men, to show hang of Six-Shooter[78]
1883 in Arizona, Author and Party[80]
Wound Up, Horse tangled in Rope[106]
Watering a Herd[116]
Herd on Trail, showing Lead Steer[137]
Changing Horses[153]
A Real Bad One[164]
Breaking the Prairie[230]
First Crop—Milo Maize[230]
Llamas as Pack Animals[279]
Drifting Sand Dune, One of Thousands[279]
Peruvian Ruins. Note Dimensions of Stones and Locking System[281]
Palace of Maharana of Udaipur[310]