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After that, I'll mount and away over the Pampas to Buenos Ayres; see the colonel, and deliver Manuela to her father." "The white-haired chief?" asked Tiger. "Even so," replied Pedro. During the foregoing conversation Quashy had thrust his fat nose down on a plank and gone to sleep, while Lawrence and Manuela, having nothing better to do, taught each other Spanish and English respectively!
I was told by a person who had spent most of his life on the pampas that on one occasion, when travelling in the neighbourhood of Cape Corrientes, his horse died under him, and he was compelled to continue his journey on foot, burdened with his heavy native horse-gear.
It bears much resemblance to the "pampas grass," now well known as an ornamental shrub. Through Caesar's skilful manipulations the sea-water is extracted from the ham, and the coffee, which is in the berry and unroasted, after a course of judicious washing and scorching, is also rendered fit for use. The biscuits also turn out better than was anticipated.
In the midst of the pampas, those vast treeless plains, where no rock or accident of conformation affords shelter from heat or cold or a hiding-place from wild beasts, man was not at a loss; he hollowed out for himself a hole in the earth, roofing it over with the shell of a glyptodon, and securing a retreat where he could be safe at least for a time. Mylodon robustus.
How such a man ever came to be so far from home in a half-civilized country was a mystery, but there he was, a bachelor and homeless man after twenty or thirty years on the pampas, with little or no money in his pocket, and no belongings except his horse he never owned more than one at a time and its cumbrous native saddle, and the saddle-bags in which he kept his wardrobe and whatever he possessed besides.
is not unknown on the Pampas and the prairie: After sailing away over the plain, like a ship going out to sea, until it was a mere speck on the horizon, Pizarro's horse thought it time to reduce its pace; but here Pizarro did not agree with it. He applied whip and spur until his steed was quite exhausted.
The Sailing Directions say that these remarkable sunsets are due to the dust being driven high into the air by the winds that blow across the pampas of the Argentine.
He therefore went direct to the chief of the Pampas Indians, and asked that the white girl might fall to his tribe. The chief hesitated. "She is our only captive," he said. "The people will like to see her, and she will live in the lodge of the Fox, who carried her off." "The Stag would like her for a slave to his wife.
When riding over the pampas on a hot still day, with a pertinacious cloud of gnats or sandflies hovering just above my head and keeping me company for miles, I have always devoutly wished for a stray dragon-fly to show himself.
I have urged my friends to cross the Pampas, to toil over the plains of Australia, but I will never lure them into the mazes of the New Zealand forest. May heaven be our guide, and keep us from ever being thrown within the power of those fierce natives!" STILL this wearisome voyage dragged on.
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