LANDING AT i;L'ENOS AYRES. 



CHAPTER VI 



ScL oui liir ]niL-no.s A}!c^ Kiu Sauce -Sicua VcnLana- 'I'liiril To.sta -T)ri\iiii^ 

 Horses — liolas — Partridges and I'u\cs- - FeaUuua of the Country — Long- 

 legged riover — Teru-tero — Ilail-storm — Natural Knclosures in tlie Sierra 

 Tapalgucn — Flesli of I'unia — Meat Diet — Guardia del Monte — Effects of 

 Cattle on the \'egetalion — Cardoon — Buenos .V)'res — Corral where Cattle are 

 slaughtered. 



IJAIIIA BLANCA TO liUEXOS AVKES 



Scptcinhir \i//i — I hired a Gaucho to accompaii)- mc on my ritlc 

 t(j Bucno.'i .\yrcs, thout^rji with some difficulty, as the father of 

 one man was afraid to let him go, and another who seemed 

 willinLjf, was described to me as so fearful that I was afraid to take 

 him, f.)r I was told that e\en if he saw an ostrich at a distance, 

 he would mistake it for an Indian, and would H)- like the wind 

 away. The distance to Piucnos A)'rcs is about foin- hundred 

 miles, aiid nearly the whole wa)' thiough an uninhabited 

 countr)'. Wc startetl eaily in the morning ; ascending a few 

 hundred feet from the basin of green turf on which liahia Hlanca 

 stands, we entered on a wide desolate plain. It consists of a 



