Crossword-Solution: ENCIERRO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The _Encierro_ _To face_ 65 A Bull-fighter 66 A Matador 68 Fishing-boat on the Guadalquivir 78 Flamingoes 74, 102 and 115 Avocets 77, 82 and 87 Stilts 70, 86 and 92 xiv.

NOTES ON HIS HISTORY: HIS BREEDS AND REARING: AND HIS LIFE UP TO THE "ENCIERRO,"--_i.e._, THE EVE OF HIS DEATH.

Nor has anything been written of the agricultural, or pastoral side of the question, and of the picturesque scenes amidst which the earlier stages of the drama are enacted, on broad Iberian plain and prairie: of the feats of horsemanship and "derring do" at the _tentaderos_, or trials, and later at the _encierro_ on that hot summer morning when the gallant _toro bravo_ is lured for ever from his native pastures, and led by traitor kin within the fatal enclosure of the arena.

The strangers grazing with them are the _cabrestos_ (or _cabestros_, in correct Castilian), the decoy-oxen sent out to fraternize for a few days with the fighting race, preparatory to the _encierro_, or operation of conveying the latter to the town where the corrida takes place.

These strangers are the _cabrestos_ (or _cabestros_, in correct Castilian), decoy-oxen sent out to fraternise for a few days with the fighting race preparatory to the _Encierro_, or operation of convoying the latter to the city whereat the _corrida_ is to take place.