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trace up the origin, and discover more accu- 

 rately the customs and particular habits, of a 

 people so little known, and so entirely unsub- 

 dued, in defiance of the pains bestowed before 

 and since the emancipation of South America 

 by the mother country, for extirpating them. 

 Lately, indeed, some of the Indians who occupied 

 those parts of the Pampas that were taken 

 possession of in the military campaigns in which 

 General Rosas has become celebrated, have 

 abandoned their wandering habits, and have 

 become settlers, under the protection of the 

 government of Buenos Ayres, and are said to 

 make excellent peons for the service of the 

 Estancias. The wilder and more remote tribes, 

 who leave their distant regions to plunder 

 the provinces, and return with the spoil, use 

 a lance of eighteen feet long, pointed with 

 bone, and are so dexterous that, without fire- 



