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naked. Their stirrups are of wood or brass, of 

 a triangular shape, and so small that, instead of 

 receiving the whole foot, the stirrup is clasped 

 between the toes; — a painful operation to any 

 one but a gaucho. When they dismount they 

 throw the rein over the neck of the horse, 

 which never moves from the spot until the 

 rider jumps again on his back. 



We were escorted by the consul round the 

 suburbs, and our attention was particularly 

 pointed to the ruins of a wall, inside a gate, 

 named the English gate, where a great many of 

 our men perished, in effecting an entrance when 

 storming the town in 1806. 



It was no easy matter to get back to the 

 North Star, against a stiff breeze from the sea. 

 She was not more than a mile and a half from 

 the shore, but we were two hours in buffetting 

 with the waves before we got alongside. In 

 such a head sea the shocks we received on the 



