CONCLUSION. 



make him discontented with a life which hangs 

 heavy upon his hands, and which becomes more 

 cheerless, because, unless he has a large sum of 

 money, to pay for his passage, he sees that he is 

 unable to return. 



The above observations are not altogether theo- 

 retical. I particularly observed the unexpected 

 effect which the climate had upon many English 

 companies *, and upon a large body of our English 



* We had all sorts of English speculations in South America, 

 some of which were really amusing. Besides many brother 

 companies which 1 met with at Buenos Aires, I found a sister 

 association of milkmaids. It had suddenly occurred to some 

 of the younger sons of John Bull, that as there were a number 

 of beautiful cows in the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, a 

 quantity of good pasture^ and as the people of Buenos Aires 

 had no butter to their bread, a Churning Company would 

 answer admirably ; and before the idea was many months old, a 

 cargo of Scotch milkmaids were lying becalmed under the Line, 

 on their passage to make butter at Buenos Aires. As they were 

 panting and sighing (being from heavy rains unable to come 

 on deck), Neptune as usual boarded the ship, and the sailors 

 who were present say that his first observation was, that he 

 had never found so many passengers and so few beards to shavef 

 however, when it was explained to him, that they were not 

 Britannia's so7is, but Jenny Bulls, who have no beards, the oldb 

 god smiled and departed. The people at Buenos Aires were^ 

 thunderstruck at the unexpected arrival of so many British 



