P^SS A FAMILY OF INDIANS. 



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Jios Ayres from Santa Fe. This stream was so 

 much swollen that we were obliged to put ever}^ 

 thing inside the carriage, and cross over on 

 horseback. On the opposite bank we fell in with 

 a family of Indians, whose countenances showed 

 them to be a distinct race of beings from the 

 natives of the province we had just travelled 

 through, although in the provinces of Santa Fe 

 and Cordova, it was very conspicuous how 

 many families were mixed with the Indian race, 

 bearing that dull and inanimate countenance, 

 with coarse black hair, so much resembling the 

 Indians of North America, and so very dissi- 

 milar to the fine noble countenances of the 

 Spanish Americans. After changing horses at 

 the posts of Arroyo del Favon, and Cerrillo 

 del Rosario, we arrived at the banks of a river, 

 where we were again obliged to put every thing 

 inside the carriage, crossing over on the horses, 

 with the water above their chests. Although we 

 had five horses to the carriage, it stuck in the 

 middle, and I had my doubts of their being able 



