A Winter in the Azores; And a Summer At the Baths of the Furnas
A Winter in the Azores; And a Summer At the Baths of the Furnas
Bullar, Joseph
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In the midst of shouts and plaudits, he repeated his feat three several times, and at length held on so firmly that others were en- couraged to join him; the crowd rushed in, lugged the animal from side to side, cruelly twisting his tail, and pricking him with the darts; and concluded by leading him off to his stall, amidst a herd of cows that had been driven into the ring to pacify his rage. Thus ended the Lisbon bull-fight. The ring was erected by Don Miguel, for his own and his people's amus...ement, at the beginning of his reign; and I was informed, that of the many low tastes, for which he is notorious at Lisbon, a love for fighting the bull with his own hands was, perhaps, the least objectionable. Fatal acci- dents, I hear, rarely happen; and, as the bulls' horns are cased with leather, and tipped with a padded ball, the horses are not gored and ripped open in the frightful way described in the rings at Grenada and Madrid ; in short, there is nearly the same difference between a bull-fight in Digitized by CjOOQ IC BULL-FIGHT.
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