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The Gaucho, a marvellous rider, is the South American 

 homologue of the Austrahan stockman.* 



Did we wish to descend below the nomad tribes that 

 wander between the Tigris and the Euphrates, we 

 should find them in the Hottentots of South Africa, the 

 Masai and Bahima of Central Africa, and the Todas of 

 India, and in all those peoples that are rising above the 

 hunting-stage and beginning to domesticate animals. 

 In Sardinia at the present day we may still perceive 

 the rude initiation of that pastoral existence which 

 spread from Arabia to Numidia and Spain, and thence 

 to Germany, France, and England, to South America, 

 and Austraha. 



* Dakwin, Voyage of the Adventure, pp. 52, 85, 104. 1890. 



