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 S