LANDING AT BUENOS AYRES. 
CHAPTER VI 
Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce—Sierra Ventana—Third Posta—Driving 
Horses—Bolas — Partridges and Foxes — Features of the Country — Long- 
legged Plover—Teru-tero—Hail-storm — Natural Enclosures in the Sierra 
Tapalguen — Flesh of Puma—Meat Diet — Guardia del Monte—Effects of 
Cattle on the Vegetation—Cardoon—Buenos Ayres—Corral where Cattle are 
slaughtered. 
BAHIA BLANCA TO BUENOS AYRES 
September Sth —I hired a Gaucho to accompany me on my ride 
to Buenos Ayres, though with some difficulty, as the father of 
one man was afraid to let him go, and another who seemed 
willing, was described to me as so fearful that I was afraid to take 
him, for I was told that even if he saw an ostrich at a distance, 
he would mistake it for an Indian, and would fly like the wind 
away. The distance to Buenos Ayres is about four hundred 
miles, and nearly the whole way through an uninhabited 
country. We started early in the morning ; ascending a few 
hundred feet from the basin of green turf on which Bahia Blanca 
stands, we entered on a wide desolate plain. It consists of a 
