South America and the Pacific: Comprising a Journey Across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima, and Panama; With Remarks Upon the Isthmus
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...fowl for us, besides supplying us with a mess of mutton mixed with maize and rice; which latter are luxuries easily obtained so near the city. Bread and milk we have in abundance; so that to-day, at any rate, we shall not starve. 26th. Post-hut.--The servant returned from his errand to Buenos Ayres ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...fowl for us, besides supplying us with a mess of mutton mixed with maize and rice; which latter are luxuries easily obtained so near the city. Bread and milk we have in abundance; so that to-day, at any rate, we shall not starve. 26th. Post-hut.--The servant returned from his errand to Buenos Ayres earlier than I expected, and we instantly began to load the horses, which were standing outside the hut, in the sun, waiting for us. We could only reach the next post to sleep, for we met with many delays and embarrassments on the road. On one occasion a baggage-horse fell into a pan-tano, and before he could extricate himself, it was necessary to take off all his load. On replacing it, we found that he was too weak to carry it, and we were obliged to shift the portmanteaus on to our peon's horse. But neither party gained much by the exchange; for the poor brute that was not able to carry the baggage, could only be prevented by constant spurring from falling with the giant gaucho who took its place. Luckily we had dined; for it was too late to get any thing to eat from the sleepy postmaster. No sooner, therefore, had we arrived, than we spread out our blankets and rugs, in a better kind of hut than the last, and made as much haste as possible to go to sleep. The guide and servant, in defiance of the cold, chose to lie outside the house on their saddles. We slept tolerably well. At daylight I was up, and scolding a faithless woman for not bringing some milk, which she had promised to the peon for our use the first thing in the morning. At last she milked a cow, made a fire under a shed, and we breakfasted on our coffee and bread; which last we had brought with us; for in general, it is a scarce article on these plains. It was nine o'clock before...
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