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eat it. The fowls at Buenos Aires are also very 

 bad, for they feed upon raw meat ; occasionally I 

 have seen them hopping out of the carcass of a 

 dead horse ; and we all fancied that the eggs tasted 

 of beef. The pigs are also carnivorous. Raw beef 

 is cheap, but fuel *, pepper, salt, bread, water, &c., 

 are all so exorbitantly dear, that the meat when 

 cooked positively becomes expensive; and every 

 article of clothing is eighty per cent, dearer than in 

 England. 



The society of the lower class of English and 

 Irish at Buenos Aires is very bad, and their con- 

 stitutions are evidently impaired by drinking, and 

 by the heat of the climate, while their morals and 

 characters are much degraded. Away from the 

 religious and moral example of their own country, 

 and out of sight of their own friends and relations, 

 they rapidly sink into habits of carelessness and 

 dissipation, which are but too evident to those who 

 come fresh from England ; and it is really too true, 

 that all the British emigrants at Buenos Aires are 

 sickly in their appearance, dirty in their dress, and 



* The coals which are used come from Newcastle; and almost 

 all the potatoes from Falmouth. 



