THE PAMPAS. 



He said that when the Indians found he was 

 getting away from them, they turned back — that 

 he escaped, and that when the Indians had left the 

 province, which was two days after, he returned 

 to the hut. He found it burnt, and saw his aunt's 

 tongue sticking on one of the stakes of the corral ; 

 her body was in the hut ; one of her feet was cut 

 off at the ancle, and she had apparently bled to 

 death. The three sons were outside the door 

 naked, their bodies were covered with wounds, and 

 their arms were gashed to the bone, by a series of 

 cuts about an inch from each other, from the shouL 

 der to the wrist. 



The boy then left me at the next post, and I 

 got into the carriage—the day getting hot, and the 

 stage twenty-four miles. After galloping about an 

 hour, I saw a large cloud of smoke on the horizon 

 before me ; and as the Indians often burn the grass 

 when they enter the country, I asked Pizarro what 

 it was.? He replied, " Quien sabe, — Senor, what 

 it may be;" however, on we galloped. 



I took little notice of it, and began to think of 

 the dreadful story the boy had told me, and of 

 many similar ones which I had heard; for I had 



