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- of very little value. 
- Of cookery. 
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eonfidered, that in this country horfes are 
Great herds of them 
run abouf wild in the vaft plains, and 
feem to belong to whoever will take the 
trouble of catching them. ‘The Gaude- 
rios generally march about in parties con- 
fifting of four, 
rhore. With refpeat to the means of pro- 
curing food; they give themfelves fo little - 
concern, that, when fetting out on an ex- 
curfion, they provide themt=l elves only with 
2 rope, a few balls, which are fattened to 
the ends of the ropes, and a knife. When 
attacked by hunger, they contrive to get 
one of the young cows or bulls, hic 
ron about wild, entangled in their fiares. 
‘They throw the captured anima !down, tie 
its legs together, and then cut, even be: 
fore it is dead, the flefh, together with 
the: fkin, from the bone, make’a few in- 
cifions in it, and, thus prepared, ‘put it 
ta the fire: when haif-roafted, it is de- 
voured without any addition or condiment, 
except a little falt, when they happen to 
carry any with theft. Some of them 
kill a cow merely for the purpofe of cb 
tainins the flefh between the ribs and the 
fkin, Others eat nothing except the 
tongue, which they roaft in the red-hot 
embers. The remainder of the car- 
cafe is all left inthe field, and becomes 
the prey of ‘carnivorous birds and wild 
beafts. Others again are ftil] more eafily 
fatisfied, taking nothing but the marrow- 
bone, from which they cut off all the fieili,’ 
and themhold it over the fire, till the mar- 
row becomes foft and fluid. Sometimes 
they practife the following fingular mode 
Having killed a cow, they 
take out the entrails, and, collecting ail 
the taliow and lumps of fat, put them 
into the hollow carcafe.. They then kin- 
die fome dried cow-dung, and apply ir to 
the tallow, that it may take fire, and pe- 
netrate into the fleth and bones. For this 
purpofe, they clofe up the carcafe as weil 
as poffible, fo that the fmoke comes ont 
at the mouth, and oer aperture made 
in the lower part of the belly. In this 
manner the cow often continues roafting a 
whole night, or a confiderable part of the 
day. When it is done enough, the com- 
pany place themfelves around, and cach 
cuts for himfelf the piece he likes hett, 
and devours f without bread or fale 
What remains is left in the field, except 
any of them happens to carry a poriicn of 
this favourite food to fome particular 
friend. 
There are two ways of travelling from 
Montevideo to Buenos-Ayres: one of 
them by land as far as El Real de San 
and fometimes” even of 
Account of Buenos- Ayres, in South Anievicac [March ¥,. 
In the dry feafon of the year 
Carlos. 
this is the fhorteft ; but, in the famy feas 
fon, the {mallet Avulers iwell co fuch a 
hegkt, that_no one can crofs them with 
out danger, fometimes not at all. Ae 
San Carles boats are always if readinefg 
to tranfport paflengers acrols the Rio dg 
la Plata, which is here ten Jeguas broad} 
and to car ry back the orders of the g6 
vernor, and all kinds. éf provifions, te 
San Carlos, © Thé moft-ufual manner of 
fraveliing from Montevideo to Buenos< 
Ayres’ is: by-water. “If the weather be 
favcurable, a boat may perform thisqpafo 
fage in twenty Your hours, though the 
diftance be forty deguas: but, ‘when the 
wind iS contrary, it may happen, that 
fourteen days will feareely be fufficient.’\" 
Buénos- Ayres is fituated on the weftern 
bank of the great river De la Plata: So 
lately as forty years ago, ‘this city was 
confidered as only the fourth as to rank 
and importance in the viceroyalty of Pers 
Lima then held the firft rank, and next in 
mfirire ces to that capital were Cuzco and 
Santiago in Chili. Since that time; ‘cir- 
cumftances have greatly altered, and at pres 
fent Lima alone can be reckoned ‘fuperior 
to Brenos-Ayres. Since: this latter'city 
became the feat of a new government, if 
has Upteee increafed, and ftill daily in< 
creafes, in confequence of the improved 
fiate of agriculture’ and commerce, and, 
in the courfe of time, will probably nife te 
ai equal rank with Lima itfeif. ‘Formers 
‘ly the citizens of Buenos-Ares had né 
country-houfes ; _and, - 
none of the finer forts of fruits were pro- 
doced here. “At prefent, there are® tew 
perions of opulence but have villas, and 
cultivate in their gardens all kinds of 
fruit, culinary piants, and flowers. The 
houfes are in general.not very high; but 
mot of them are built in a light and 
beautiful manner. 
At Buenos. Ayres, the men as ‘well as 
the women drefs after the Spanifh mode, 
and all the fafhions aré brought thither 
from the mother-country. The ladies in 
Buenos-Ayres are reckoned the mot 
agreeable and handfome of all South Ame- 
rica; and, though they do not equal thofé 
of Lima in magnificence, yet their manner 
of dreffing and decorating themlelves: ig 
net lef{s “pleafing, and even evinces a 
greater delicacy offatte, 
Until the year 1747, no regular poft 
was eftablithed fther in Buends-Ayres, 
or the whole province of Tucuman, not-- 
withitanding the great mtercourfe and 
trade with the neighbouring provinces, | 
Ge ainn Aci {ent; as. often as they: nec it 
Ys 
except peachess 
