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In truth, they have no thought about these, nor eyes for them. Enough if they can avoid intrusion into their dwellings by a short cut downwards. Nor do the biscachas seem at all alarmed at the sight of such formidable invaders.
The thing thus obstructing causes them neither surprise nor alarm, only annoyance; for it is one with which they all are familiar a biscachera, or warren of biscachas. It is scarce possible to travel twenty miles across the plains bordering the La Plata or Parana, without coming upon the burrows of this singular rodent; a prominent and ever-recurring feature in the scenery.
On the pampa such incidents are far from rare; for the burrows of the biscachas are carried like galleries underground, and therefore dangerous to any heavy quadruped so unfortunate as to sink through the surface turf. In short, to ride across a biscachera would be on a par with passing on horseback through a rabbit warren.
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