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dently taken from the usual method of drying hides. My interview 

 passed away without a smile, and I obtained a passport and order for 

 the Government post-horses, and this he gave me in the most obliging 

 and ready manner." 



In 1835 Rosas made himself dictator, and a more terrible ruler 

 never cursed a nation. A picture of life at the capital, while this 

 tyrant was feared as much as he was hated and flattered, may be 

 found in the interesting work called " Life in the Argentine Repub- 

 lic in the Days of the Tyrants," by D. F. Sarmiento, afterward Pres- 

 ident of the Republic, which was translated by Mrs. Horace Mann, 

 and published in New York in 1868. This work was written some 

 years before the downfall of the dictator, and only partly relates to 

 him. " The Reign of Rosas; or, South American Sketches,"-by E. C. 

 Fernau,was published in London in 1877. Rosas was defeated in bat- 

 tle by General Urquiza in 1852, and spent the remainder of his days 

 in exile, dying in England in March, 1877. 



Sturt 5 CHARLES. (Page 72.) An English officer, captain of the 



39th Regiment ; born ; died June 16th, 1869, at Cheltenham, 



England. In 1828-31 he explored the great basin of the Murray 

 River in south-eastern Australia, of which the Murrumbidgee is a 

 tributary. In 1844-46 he penetrated nearly to the centre of the con- 

 tinent. Of these journeys he gave an account in " Two Expeditions 

 into the Interior of Southern Australia" (London, 1833), and "Nar- 

 rative of an Exploration into Central Australia " (London, 1849). 



Symonds, WILLIAM. (Page 76.) An English rear-admiral and 

 naval architect ; born 1782 ; died 1856. 



