THE PAMPAS. 



which served to guide him, and we then galloped 

 towards the post, from which we were distant about 

 thirteen miles. 



I there got some breakfast, while they were 

 catching another horse for me. They had neither 

 bread nor milk, but I got some water, a couple of 

 eggs, and an old woman warmed some charque for 

 me over the embers. I was surrounded by several 

 women and girls, all three-quarters naked, who 

 asked me if I could give them mate or sugar, 



por remedio ?" As soon as my horse was saddled, 

 I purchased the bridle of the Gaucho who had 

 stolen mine, and then galloped on. The country, 

 which from Mendoza is covered with wood, now 

 changes to the long brown and yellow grass, which, 

 excepting a few straggling trees, is the sole produce 

 of the remainder of the province of San Luis, and 

 of the two adjoining provinces of Cordova and 

 Santa Fe. In the whole of this immense region 

 there is not a weed to be seen. The coarse grass 

 is its sole produce ; and in the summer when it is 

 high, it is beautiful to see the effect which the wind 

 has in passing over this wild expanse of waving 

 grass : the shades between the brown and yellow 



