The banderilleros, too, thus escape danger because they do their work while the bull's whole attention is on the red cloth operated by another man in front.

The man I saw gored, tossed and killed must have made some little miscalculation, or been careless, and stood not quite out of the bull's way, so that the terrible sharp horns caught him, as one may say, _by mistake_.
The Mexicans, too, like my coolies in India, were great cock-fighters.
It is a national sport and also a cruel one.
Matadors are paid princely sums.

The most efficient, the great stars, come from Spain.

Many of them are extremely handsome men and their costume a handsome and picturesque one.

As a mark of their profession they wear a small pigtail, not artificial but of their own growing hair.
I travelled with one once but did not know it till he removed his hat.
Denver and San Francisco were great centres of prize-fighting.