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being full of grass, over-weighted, and out of 

 condition, they, nevertheless, do wonders. I 

 have, myself, reason to be most grateful for 

 the health which the climate, and the ride 

 together, have restored to me. I left Buenos 

 Ayres out of spirits, and not recovered entirely 

 from illness; but I am now so well, and so 

 full of energy, that I would not relapse into 

 my old habit of feeling for a kingdom. 



The Indians have not been heard of at the 

 post which we are now going to leave. The 

 troops halted here yesterday on their march. 



3d. — The day did not end yesterday without 

 adventures. The smoothness of the plain was 

 changed for a ride over a more broken and 

 irregular surface than usual, and our minds 

 underwent a corresponding agitation. We rode 

 very fast to a post called Baranquita,* at the 



* Mr. Caldcleugh and another gentleman, when travel- 

 ling across the Pampas, fell in with the Indians at this 



