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old man with his little boy, riding like a Mazeppa on the white 
horse, thus leaving far behind him the host of’his pursuers! 
I saw one day a soldier striking fire with a piece of flint, 
which I immediately recognised as having been a part of the 
head of an arrow. He told me it was found near the island of 
Cholechel, and that they are frequently picked up there, It 
was between two and three inches long, and therefore twice as 
large as those now used in Tierra del Fuego: it was made of 
opake cream-coloured flint, but the point and barbs had been 
intentionally broken off. It is well known that no Pampas 
Indians now use bows and arrows. I believe a small tribe in 
Banda Oriental must be excepted; but they are widely separated 
from the Pampas Indians, and border cose on those tribes that 
inhabit the forest, and live on foot. It appears, therefore, that 
these arrow-heads are antiquarian* relics of the Indians, before 
the great change in habits consequent on the introduction of theo 
horse into South America. 
* Azara has even doubted whether the Pampas Indians ever used bows. 
