ところが、２年前、祖父が亡くなり、母親が跡を継いで農園主に。レベッカも、母親に付いて海を渡り、南国の植民地で暮している。そんなレベッカが、本国の友人に送った手紙。

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　当地のレディーは、町に用足しに出たり、お隣の農園でのパーティーにお呼ばれ、なんてときに、人力車を使うの。馬の代わりに、奴隷に牽かせる車よ。

　馬車より手軽だし、調教された奴隷は、馬よりもよく言うことをきくので女性でも楽に馭せるのが、人気の理由．．．表向きのね。本音を言えば、馬よりも奴隷を鞭打つ方が楽しいから、なんてところかな。馬を矢鱈にムチ打ったりすると、動物愛護協会の連中がうるさいけど、奴隷なら、どんなに酷くあつかっても問題にならないから、気晴らしにはもってこいよ。

　野良仕事に使う奴隷の中から気の利いたのを選んで繋ぐ向きもあるけど、それじゃ農繁期に困るでしょ。だから大きな農園の奥様やお嬢様は、専用の挽奴を飼っている。

　牡馬じゃなく、牝馬を２〜３匹繋いで使う人もいるよ。でも、私は、複数の牝馬を馭すのは面倒なので、もっぱら頑丈な牡馬を愛用している。
何度も奴隷市に出かけた挙句、顔つきも体つきも気に入ったのをようやく見つけて、競り落とした、自慢の牡馬。もちろん、自分で調教したよ。

　この子、私が買った時は、処女肌だったよ。原産地から荷揚げされたばかりで、未だ鞭を知らない、まっさらな体だったってこと。だから、とても自尊心が高くて、反抗的だった。私は、この子に調教を施す前に、まずは私への馴致から始めなくちゃならなかった。
　この子が、全能の女主人たる私への反抗心や自尊心を一切なくすまで、鞭で徹底的に仕込んだの。固い皮を柔らかな鞣し革に加工するみたいにね。鞭だけじゃなく、母親譲りの、奴隷を手懐ける手練手管も駆使したんだ。
　その甲斐あって、今では、私の車に繋がれ、私に鞭打たれて、私を乗せた車を挽いて全速で走るのを生き甲斐にする、素直で従順な、かわいい奴隷馬よ。

　奴隷を車に繋いで使役するときは、牡馬も牝馬も、衣服は一切着けさせないの。服を着せたまま走らせると、すぐに汗だくになって見苦しいから、服を着せない方がマナーに適うってわけ。第一、服の上からだと鞭の効き目が薄いでしょ。下帯もつけさせないのは、奴隷が生理的要求をみたす時の便宜のため。

　だから、車に繋ぐ「牡馬」には、丸裸にしても恥ずかしくない、というか、服なんか着けてない方がよほど立派に見える、立派な体格の奴を選ぶの。しかも、私たちの鞭のお陰で、その見事な体にますます磨きがかかるってわけ。

　レディーの間では、車に繋ぐ「馬」について、ちょっとした競争心があるんだ。「馬」の顔つきや、体の立派さ、動作の機敏さや走る姿勢の美しさ。それから、大きな声じゃいえないけど、アレの形や大きさもね。

　この子もそのことを十分自覚していて、他のレディーの前で私に恥をかかせないよう、がんばっているよ。
　当地にいらっしゃって、この子が私に馭されて誇らしげに車を挽く様子、ぜひ見てほしいな。

Rebecca is 24 years old. Until two year ago she lived in a big city of Europe with her mother, older sister and a dozen or so servants. Her father died when she was 3 years old. Her family was sustained by her mother's father, who run a big plantation in a transmarine southern country.

Then her grandfather died, and her mother succeeded him. She went to the southern country to be the owner of the plantation. With her, Rebecca crossed the ocean. Following is a letter of her to her friend in Europe.

When they go to the town or visit their neighboring planter's house, ladies of this region usually use rickshaws and slaves.

 Rickshaws are less bulky than coaches, and trained slaves mind so well that it is much easier for women to drive them than horses. These are official reasons of high popularity rickshaws enjoy among ladies. The bottom line might be that it gives them more pleasure to whip slaves than flogging horses. Humane Society, who will condemn you if you whip animals severely, says nothing about punishment on your slaves how cruelly you do it. So, whipping slaves makes excellent recreation for ladies here.

Some ladies select their "horses" from slaves for farm labor.　In that case, however, you can't use them in busy farming seasons. So ladies of affluent family keep their own "horses".

Sometimes you see a team of two or three mares is used instead of a stallion. But I always make a heavyset stallion pull my cart because it is bother for me to control more than one horse.
I visited slave auction from times to time to find a right stallion for me. At long last I found one who had good looking and a nice body with powerful legs, and I made a successful bid for it. I trained it by myself, of course.

When I got him, his skin was virgin, which means that he had never been whipped before. He had just been imported from his place of origin, and was very proud and rebellious.. So I had to break my wild stallion before I train it.

I tamed my beast  throughly with my whip, till it lost all the pride and rebellious spirit to his mighty mistress. It was just like to tan raw hide into soft leather. Besides whip, I used techniques I learned from my mother to tame slaves.
My efforts were well rewarded. I made him a good slave of mine, very obedient and submissive to me, Now It is his new sense of purpose in life to be chained to my cart, driven by my whip, and to run out pulling the cart on which I ride.

Human horses, stallions and mares alike, are stripped off all their clothes before they are chained to cart. Otherwise, they will soon get drenched in sweat which will make their appearance ungraceful to see. Moreover, whips don't work well over clothes. The reason we take their loincloths off is for the sake of convenience in case they have to heed nature's call. 

My boy knows it very well and always does his best to meet my expectations.
I wish one day you will come here to see how proudly he pulls the cart I ride.