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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW. 



ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



rancho where we stayed. It w r as supposed that General 

 Eosas had about six hundred Indian allies. The men were 



LENGUA INDIANS (BASIN OF THE PLATE RIVER). 



a tall, fine race, yet it was afterward easy to see in the Fue- 

 gian savage the same countenance made hideous by cold, 

 want of food, and less civilization. Among the young wom- 

 en, or chinas, some deserve to be called even beautiful. Their 

 hair was coarse, but bright and black, and they wore it in 

 two plaits, hanging down to the waist. They had a high 

 color, and eyes that glistened with brilliancy. Their legs, 

 feet, and arms were small, and elegantly formed ; their ankles, 

 and sometimes their waists, were ornamented by broad brace- 

 lets of blue beads. Nothing could be more interesting than 

 some of the family groups. A mother with one or two 



