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The vicunas, afraid to spring over the ropes with the coloured rags fluttering in their faces, are attacked by the hunters with their bolas, the hind-legs being generally aimed at. The huanucus, which are much wilder, invariably leap the barriers and escape, when frequently the vicunas follow their example.
The lazo, when not used, is tied up in a small coil to the after part of the recado. The bolas, or balls, are of two kinds: the simplest, which is chiefly used for catching ostriches, consists of two round stones, covered with leather, and united by a thin plaited thong, about eight feet long. The other kind differs only in having three balls united by the thongs to a common centre.
Although the ostrich in its habits is so shy, wary, and solitary, and although so fleet in its pace, it is caught without much difficulty by the Indian or Gaucho armed with the bolas. When several horsemen appear in a semicircle, it becomes confounded, and does not know which way to escape.
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Then the odd ones that remained were each attacked by several hunters at once, and the rushing and doubling of the animals the many headings and turnings the shouts of the spectators the whizzing of the bolas sometimes two or three of these missiles hurled at a single victim all combined to furnish a spectacle to me novel and exciting.
See! the vicuña tosses his head and strikes the ground with his hoof. Listen! it is his shrill whistle. The scattered herd suddenly start and flock together; but, look! the llama stands erect on his hind-legs; the bolas whirl around his head they are launched out. Ha! the vicuña is down! Where is the female drove? Have they scampered off and forsaken their lord?
But ere the yard can be run up to the masthead, there comes a whizzing, booming sound and it is caught in the bolas! The mast is struck too, and the balls, whirling around and around, lash it and the yard together, with the frumpled canvas between, as tight as a spliced spar! And now dismay fills the hearts of the boat's people: all chance of escape seems gone.
"But there isn't enough water in the San Hedrin to float a redwood log, Dad. I've fished there, and I know." "Quite true in the summer and fall. But when the winter freshets come on and the snow begins to melt in the spring up in the Yola Bolas, where the San Hedrin has its source, we'll have plenty of water for driving the river.
The costume of a gaucho is, however, only complete when he is on horseback with the bolas, the lasso, and a knife at his girdle.
Magnificently mounted, for a gaucho would not be otherwise, he succeeds in his intent, after a run of a mile or so, getting close enough to the birds to operate upon them with his bolas. Winding these around his head and launching them, he has the satisfaction of seeing the cock ostrich go down upon the grass, its legs lapped together tight as if he had hard spliced them.
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