One can imagine how delightful and refreshing this roll and shake must be, quite as refreshing as a cold bath (would be) to the tired and perspiring rider.

Alas! cold or hot baths are not obtainable by the cattleman for possibly months at a time.
The face and hands alone can receive attention.

The new and modern idea of bodily self-cleansing is here effectually put in force and apparently with good health results.

The rivers when in flood are extremely muddy; when not they are very shallow, and the water is usually alkaline and undrinkable, as well as quite useless for bathing purposes.
Cow-ponies generally have sound feet and durable hoofs, but in very sandy countries the hoofs will spread out in a most astonishing way and need constant trimming.
In droughty countries like Arizona and New Mexico we were frequently reduced to serious straits to find decent drinking-water.

On many occasions I have drunk, and drunk with relief and satisfaction, such filthy, slimy, greenish-looking stuff as would disgust a frog and give the _Lancet_ a fit, though that discriminating journal would probably call it soup.