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Updated: May 8, 2025
I travelled on one horse, and it therefore took me several days to accomplish my journey. Before I reached my destination, called Estancia de la Virgin de los Desamparados, I met with some adventures worth relating, and began to feel as much at home with the Orientales as I had long been with the Argentinos.
Instead of quieting the discord that prevailed among the Argentinos, these victories only fomented trouble. The federalists had ousted Rivadavia and discarded the constitution, but the federal idea for which they stood had several meanings.
Their ponchos, long since pulled apart, and the dust cuffed out of them, are to serve for what they really are blankets; a purpose to which at night they are put by all gauchos and most Argentinos as much as they are used during day time for cloak or greatcoat. Each wrapping himself up in his own, all conversation ceases, and sleep is sought with closed eyes.
"Now, Uncle Luke, dad's a dear, especially after dinner, but you and I know him. Giving me a present is one thing, doing business for me is another. He'd unload on me. He'd never be able to resist the temptation." My father would suggest, and Barbara would thank him. But a minute later would murmur: "You don't know anything about Argentinos."
My father did not, but Barbara did; to quite a remarkable extent for a young girl. "That child has insisted on leaving this cheque with me and I have advised her to buy Argentinos," my father would observe after she was gone. "I am going to put a few hundreds into them myself. I hope they will turn out all right, if only for her sake. I have a presentiment somehow that they will."
That is not to the discredit of the Argentinos, who, though a new people, have accomplished much that deserves praise. Their exhibit, in Room 112, is important in its showing of the progress of art in so new a country, and it is said to be representative.
There, amid the snow-capped peaks of the giant Andes, one may read inscribed upon the pedestal: "Sooner shall these mountains crumble to dust than Argentinos and Chileans break the peace which at the feet of Christ the Redeemer they have sworn to maintain!" Nor has the peace been broken.
But Barbara had, and before she had done with him, so had he. And the next day Argentinos would be sold not any too soon and Calcuttas bought. Could money so gained bring a blessing with it? The question would plague my father. "It's very much like gambling," he would mutter uneasily to himself at each success, "uncommonly like gambling." "It is for your mother," he would impress upon me.
But the merriment soon subsided, as Brazilians and Argentinos came to realize what their peril might be from a huge army of skilled and valiant soldiers, a veritable horde of fighting fanatics, drawn up in a compact little land, centrally located and affording in other respects every kind of strategic advantage.
A month later Barbara would greet him with: "Isn't it lucky we bought Argentinos!" "Yes; they haven't turned out badly, have they? I had a feeling, you know, for Argentinos." "You're a genius, Uncle Luke. And now we will sell out and buy Calcuttas, won't we?" "Sell out? But why?" "You said so. You said, 'We will sell out in about a month and be quite safe." "My dear, I've no recollection of it."
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