THE PAMPAS. 



inent in the world should ever make them leav6 

 their husbands, or their children, and that they 

 were quite delighted with the life they led. 



While I was sitting upon the side seat of th^ 

 carriage, reflecting on the cruelties which had been 

 exercised in a country which, in spite of its history, 

 was really wild and beautiful, and which possessed 

 an air of unrestrained freedom which is always ex- 

 hilarating, I remarked that the carriage was only 

 at a walk, an occurrence which in South America 

 had never before happened to me, and in an instant 

 it stopped. Vea, Senor," said Pizarro, with a firm 

 countenance, as he turned back to speak to me, 

 " que tanta gente !" he pointed with his right hand 

 before him, and I saw that the smoke which I had 

 before observed was dust, and in it I indistinctly 

 saw a crowd of men on horseback in a sort of wild 

 military array ; and on both flanks, at a great dis- 

 tance off", individual horsemen, who were evidently 

 on the look out to prevent a surprise. Our horses 

 were completely tired; the whole body were 

 coming rapidly towards us, and to mend the matter, 

 Pizarro told me that he was afraid they were los 

 Indios. " Senor," said he, with great coolness, and 



