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Show !.enf tllilanca lll.ltn,. Nw York Tribune "Aa la natural, many itorlei are afloat at thla time," (aid Oeorgo Lnmburn, of London, who lias lived at Pretorh for aevcral yean, "lo account for tho extraordinary manner man-ner In which the Urltlih have been outranked and overcome by the Iloert. I hare repeatedly teen ttatomenti that tbtt (i partly on account of th iu-perlor iu-perlor stamina and endurance of the horse hlch the Ilocr rode, which could cover SO to 1C0 pillc a day and keep It U for several day That It all tommy rot, the Ilocr horse li a rood animal, but he Is ot tleih nnd bps. and not of attel and Iron as such endurance a that would Imply The greatest record rill In the Irantraal was tho ono made by Schmidt at tho tl-no of the Jam. ion raid, who, In a tingle night, rodo from Pretoria to a point near Krugerdorp, on the Mate-king- border, and return The distance waa about 00 miles, and ho covered It on the tame horse, although In so doing do-ing ho killed tho animal |