Identifier: mexicoitsancient01enoc (find matches)
Title: Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development;
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ing at the bridle, and the picador onhis back with his enormous spurs, forces the tremblingbrute to face the savage bull again, whilst the audienceonce more roars out its applause. As many as ten horsesare killed or ruined at times by a single bull, who returnsagain and again to plunge his horns into the prostratecarcase ere it is dragged away. This is sport! But perhaps the bull himself is faint-hearted ! Then,indeed, the noble Spanish blood of the audience isaroused to fever pitch. ^Otro toro! Otro toro—Anotherbull 1 bring another bull !—rises from a thousandthroats. Otherwise the other acts of the performancetake their course, and the banderilleros, bull-fightersarmed with short gaudily decorated spears with barbedpoints, come on. Some pretty play now ensues, thebanderilleros constantly facing the bull at arms lengthwith the object of gracefully sticking the spears orbanderillas in the neck of the animal, where, if success-ful, they hang dangling as, smarting with the pain, the
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Q . z. 5 :; a:o5 CITIES AND INSTITUTIONS 195 bull tears round the arena, to the accompaniment of thedelighted roar of the crowd. This scene is repeatedagain and again, until perhaps several pairs of banderillasare depending from the shoulders of the maddenedanimal. The capeadores have not been idle, and thebull, repeatedly charging them and meeting only theempty flapping of the capas—the scarlet cloaks whichthe bull-fighters charged with this ofBce wield—workshimself into a paroxysm of rage, which must be seen tobe understood. Oftentimes the capeadores are severelyinjured; sometimes killed in the act by a terrific strokeof the bulls horns. But hark! once more a bugle-call, strong and sonorous,from the judges box ; the well-known notes which callthe espada to his task ; the last act in the drama—fordrama it is. The espada is the most famous bull-fighterof all. His salary is a princely one; his reputationextends over two continents, from Old Madrid to OldMexico. He is the great st

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