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CONTENTS. 



Robbers — Get benighted, and lose our way — 

 Method of marking horses — Deserters about — 

 Arrive at Las Vacas — Embark in an open whale- 

 boat to cross Rio de la Plata — Driven on the 

 Sand-banks — Arrive at Buenos Ayres — -Prepare 

 for crossing the Pampas . . .21 



CHAPTER III. 



Leave Buenos Ayres — First night on the Pampas — 

 Description of a Post-House — Posts protected 

 against the Lidians — Description of a Gaucho 

 and his Family — Fire on the Pampas — Beautiful 

 driving of the Peons — Family of Indians — 

 Hunting Deer and Ostriches — Cruelty of the 

 Gauchos to their Horses — Hear of Robbers — 

 View of the Hills of Sierra de Cordova — Arrive 

 at Punta de Agua . . .36 



CHAPTER IV. 



Carriage upset — Dexterity of the Peons — Cross a 

 River — Storm on the Pampas — Indian Chief and 

 Two Captives arrive — Pampas Music — Arrive at 

 San Luis — Rio Desaguadero — Night Scene — 

 First sight of the Andes — Arrive at Mendoza — 

 Description of the Natives of the Pampas — Tra- 



