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Feeding of horses. 4 unclear words ears of corn & fodder - in the West Mess Kit Grass only. Much by the Indians; Lepans, Tonkenays, Tawacandis &c, who when they approach the Coast in the Summer, hunting them for their meat, jerking or drying it, & for taming so as to use them to carry their camp Equipage, themselves & families. It is land that droves of Mustangs rove about the N.W. part of Texas These & other Indians will give great prices for very common American or Texan Horses; but the Indians generally do not know how to take care of a horse; he has his corn for him, & all grass & no corn when the animal is worked by long journies makes a horse very thin, & often one Indian journey does him up. The pure Mustang is easily taken, but when they have been accompanied by American Mares or horses they get very cautious, difficult to catch but their size & breed is improved. Thirteen hands high is given for the pure Mustang. The general way of catching the Mustang is to get them hemmed in, & noose them with the lazo, they kick & struggle for a few Minutes, but finding a tight rope round their necs & ? them, taken not ? idea of life & death