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things too, can surpass a Spanish lady in grace 

 of manner and carriage. This advantage is also 

 shared by those of a humbler class, to a degree 

 quite remarkable. Their climate is so favour- 

 able to complexions, that red and white are 

 mingled together as in our own country, and I 

 have seldom seen, in any city, a finer race of 

 women than those of Buenos Ayres. 



To-morrow we go to Navarro, where Don 



lives in his estancia. I have hired a 



galera, a sort of high omnibus with hide-bound 

 springs, in which Captain H., the purser, another 

 officer, Don Castellote (our friend the lawyer), 

 and myself, are to make this journey. We have 

 hired twenty-five horses, four of which at a time 

 are to go in this machine, and the others will 

 serve us to ride when we please. 



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