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lop. We take a small tent., two hammocks, tea, 

 sugar, coffee^ and chocolate, besides tin mugs 

 and teapot, and a tin box of salt ; all of which 

 will bear shaking without injury. We are to ride 

 in ponchos, like the gauchos, with knives in 

 our belts behind, and pistols before. 



I am tired of riding about Monte Video, 

 having exhausted all the sights worth seeing. 

 The country is picturesque by comparison with 

 the environs of Buenos Ayres. When we first 

 arrived here from Rio, it looked detestably 

 flat and barren. Here, as at Buenos Ayres, 

 tainted pieces of beef assail the nose and eye 

 at every turning. Horses are rather dearer, 

 and not so good, at least such as I have seen. 

 I brought one with me, nearly sixteen hands 

 high, in the North Star from Buenos Ayres, 

 which I purchased there for forty shillings, and for 

 which I was offered, almost immediately on my 



