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For three or four miles before it is reached the west bank, on which it stands, becomes high rocky ground, falling away into cliffs. The country roundabout was evidently well peopled. We saw gauchos, cattle-herders the equivalent of our own cowboys riding along the bank.
Whoever they are we shall at least be able to gather some information from them, and, at the worst, we can follow them to some inhabited spot." "True, massa, an' if dey's rubbers we kin fight dem." On drawing near they found that the riders belonged to a family of Gauchos. There were six of them all fine-looking fellows, clad in the graceful, though ragged costume of the Pampas.
I's bin kotched by rubbers an' rescued by Gauchos, an' stole by Injins, an' I's runned away an' found myself here, an' dey's bin good to me here, but dey don't seem to want me much so I's kite free but I's awrful heaby!" "What's dat got to do wid it?" inquired the lover, tying a knot of perplexity on his eyebrows.
In fine, he urges her to make her future home in the Argentine States; a pleasanter land to live in, besides being a land of liberty, and, above all, the orthodox country of his own class and kind, the gauchos.
Richardson also, has remarked, "that when people have fed for a long time solely upon lean animal food, the desire for fat becomes so insatiable, that they can consume a large quantity of unmixed and even oily fat without nausea:" this appears to me a curious physiological fact. It is, perhaps, from their meat regimen that the Gauchos, like other carnivorous animals, can abstain long from food.
The mysterious, gentle instinct of this ungentle species, which causes the gauchos of the pampas to name it man's friend "amigo del cristiano" has been persistently ignored by all travellers and naturalists who have mentioned the puma.
There it was unmistakably at first sight as broad and as much trampled as the other; but after a careful examination of it there was but one opinion, namely, that the number of animals who had passed was decidedly less than those who had gone south. One of the Gauchos now told Mr.
"Wrong?" replied Paganel. "Yes. Thalcave took them for robbers, and he knows what he is talking about." "Well, Thalcave was mistaken this time," retorted Paganel, somewhat sharply. "The Gauchos are agricul-turists and shepherds, and nothing else, as I have stated in a pamphlet on the natives of the Pampas, written by me, which has attracted some notice." V. IV Verne
In the Voyage of a Naturalist, speaking of this supposed indolence of the gauchos, he tells that in one place where workmen were in great request, seeing a poor gaucho sitting in a listless attitude, he asked him why he did not work. The man's answer was that he was too poor to work! The philosopher was astonished and amused at the reply, but failed to understand it.
I had then some difficulty in making him comprehend that it was for the horse's sake, and not on his account, that I did not choose to use my spurs. He exclaimed, with a look of great surprise, "Ah, Don Carlos, que cosa!" It was clear that such an idea had never before entered his head. The Gauchos are well known to be perfect riders.
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