VARIOUS TRAVELLERS. 



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vered with snow, as w^as the case when I 

 crossed in the winter, but on my return in 

 the summer, I would have gone full gallop 

 over them all, if the ascent would admit of that 

 pace. 



Another traveller speaks, when crossing the 

 Pampas, of having horse's skulls for seats, 

 horse's skulls for pillows, &c. I must say that 

 I never met any thing of this sort ; for I never 

 even saw one, during my two journies across, 

 except at Villavicencia, where there were two 

 in the wretched hovel of a shed, which served 

 the purpose of a kitchen. I feel assured these 

 travellers have no intention of leading any one 

 astray by their remarks, but many persons are 

 apt to be influenced by them, and might picture 

 to themselves the horrid dangers, and savage 

 country they have to travel through ; whereas 

 very little is to be dreaded, and I only wish 

 many parts of England were as civilized and 

 safe to travel through as the Pampas."^ 



* Of course the Pampas are subject to the incursions of the 



