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0176 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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the *mêlée*, the horses jumped and turned this way and that,
while all the riders tried to force a way to the middle of the
fight, whipping their own and other people's horses, tak-
ing horses by the head and turning them suddenly round,
and themselves leaning far out of their saddles as they
grabbed madly at the black calf. At last one man captured
it, threw it over the front of his saddle, put both legs over it,
and was off at a dead run with fifty others after him. They
could not catch him, and, making a great sweep as large
as the terrace allowed, he returned in triumph to throw
the beast before me and get the customary reward.

Then began another scrimmage, in which one over-zeal-
ous rider was knocked from his horse and apparently tram-
pled on, but when the kicking, surging crowd of horses had
passed, his horse was still with him, and he mounted and
galloped off with a grin. After half-a-dozen scrimmages,
one daring rider seized the prize and went over the terrace,
down a hundred-foot slope so steep that a footman could
scarcely climb it without zigzagging. At the foot, the bold
rider, hard pressed by his pursuers, cantered across a broad
arm of the river, and away across the plain beyond, trying
as he went to skin the calf, for he who carries off the skin
wins the "bagai."

We rode away with the "Deyem Bai," the giver of the
entertainment, who was homeward bound to inspect the
cooking of the sheep for the feast that was to follow. It is
the custom, I was told, for men of wealth to furnish a goat
or calf for the "bagai," and to invite all the men of one or
two villages to join in the sport, and at the end to indulge
in a feast, or better, a carnivorous orgie. Among the occa-