TOPOGRAPHY OF ARGENTINA. 



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They were encamped for some time in a village of wooden huts, while lands were 

 being apportioned out to them ; and here they soon showed what manner of 

 colonists they were going to be. Drinking, gambling, and horse-racing was the 

 order of the day. The capital they had brought with them took unto itself 

 wings ; for let the gruigo (European), however knowing in his own land, skin 

 his eyes ere he match himself ou the turf with the simple gaucho of the pampas. 



Fig. 174.— Cordoba. 

 Scale 1 : 800,000. 



18 Miles. 



" So things went on, and the natives smiled at the ways of the locos Ingkses 

 fmad Englishmen'), won their money, acquired their mortgaged lands, while 

 the colonists diminished woefully in number. Many of these gentlemen ultimately 

 were driven to take any menial work they could get; some died of delirium 

 tremens, others self -despatched with their own revolvers ; the remainder settled 

 down, after the first wild burst was over, with diminished means to the business 

 they had come over to undertake. The prosperous little town of Frayle Muerto 



