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MODE OF TRAVELLING. 



There are two ways of travelling across the Pam- 

 pas, in a carnage, or on horseback. The carriages 

 are without springs, either of wood or iron, but 

 they are very ingeniously slung on hide-ropes, 

 which make them quite easy enough. There are 

 two sorts of carriages, a long vehicle on four 

 wheels, like a van (with a door behind), which is 

 drawn by four or six horses, and which can carry 

 eight people; and a smaller carriage. on two wheels, 

 of about half the length, which is usually drawn by 

 three horses. 



When I first went across the Pampas, I pur- 

 chased for my party a large carriage, and also an 

 enormous, two- wheeled, covered cart, which carried 

 about twenty-five hundred weight of miners' tools, 

 &c. I engaged a capataz (head-man), and he 

 hired for me a number of peons, who were to 

 receive thirty or forty dollars each for driving the 

 vehicles to Mendoza. 



