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also. We are to take our guns, and make it 

 a shooting excursion. A Spanish lawyer, with 

 whom we have formed an acquaintance, has 

 very politely written to his friend, Senor Don 



the owner of the estancia, to say he 



intends to take us with him on a visit. 



The weather is become drier with the 

 advance of spring, and we shall soon be able 

 to travel on the plains, which in the wet season 

 are quite inundated, and impassable for a car- 

 riage. The grass and leaves are beginning to 

 grow, the birds to build their nests, and 

 showers (like April showers in England), to 

 bring forth the seed in November. How 

 strange it appears to an European, to reverse 

 the seasons — to cheat a cold winter as I have 

 done by crossing the equator, and arrive in 

 the southern hemisphere at the beginning of 

 an October spring ! 



