MODE OF TRAVELLING. 



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enough of them) is quite surprising. Our cart, 

 although laden with twenty-five hundred weight of 

 tools, kept up with the carriage at a hand-gallop. 

 Very often, as the two vehicles were going at this 

 pace, some of the peons, who were always in high 

 spirits, would scream out, " Ah mi patron !" and 

 then all shriek and gallop with the carriage after 

 me; and very frequently I was unable to ride away 

 from them. 



But strange as the account of this sort of driving 

 may sound, the secret would be discovered by any 

 one who could see the horses arrive. In England, 

 horses are never seen in such a state ; the spurs, 

 heels, and legs of the peons are literally bathed 

 with blood, and from the sides of the horses the 

 blood is constantly flowing rather than dropping. 



After this description, injustice to myself, I must 

 say, that it is impossible to prevent it. The horses 

 cannot trot, and it is impossible to draw the line 

 between cantering and galloping, or, in merely 

 passing through the country, to alter the system of 

 riding, which all over the Pampas is cruel. 



The peons are capital horsemen, and several 

 times we saw them at a gallop throw the rein on 



