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without meat to the fatigue of going through the 

 sun to fetch it. This imhecility had its natural 

 effect upon their minds, and they expressed their 

 dislike of a chmate in which they could make no 

 exertions, and by which they were even exhausted 

 while lying down or sitting still ; and as soon as I 

 determined on sending them home, they all mosi 

 joyfully gave up the lucrative advantages which 

 had induced them to come to the country, and none 

 of them would remain, although by their agree- 

 ments they might each have claimed sixty pounds 

 instead of a passage, and might instantly have 

 made very good contracts with the other Mining 

 Companies ; but they were all anxious to return, 

 and I heard several of them say to each other, that 

 " they had sooner work their fingers to the stumps 

 in England than be gentlemen at Buenos Aires." 



From the above circumstances, and many other 

 observations which I endeavoured to make on the 

 situations of a few English emigrants I met with in 

 the different Provinces, I am convinced that those 

 who have hitherto emigrated to this country, as well 

 as those who deserted from General Whitelocke's 

 army, have passed their days in disappointment 



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