170 EXPEDITIOUS TRAVELLING. 



follow with the rest of the baggage ; and at a 

 small village through which we passed early in 

 the day, changed some dollars into rials, for 

 paying on the road more conveniently. 



Delighted at our independence, we galloped 

 on merrily, the gaucho postilion leading the 

 baggage-horse by a long rein, and showing us 

 the way. We stopped once only after leaving 

 the village, before we reached the next post ; 

 and this was occasioned by observing that the 

 baggage-horse was bleeding at the nose, from 

 being over girthed. We remedied this by 

 slackening the bandages and our pace, to allow 

 the horse to recover. 



Nothing particular occurred for several posts 

 of twelve or fifteen miles each ; excepting, 

 what may be deemed an important event in 

 these regions — that of meeting a caleche at full 

 gallop, jumping rather than rolling over the rough 



