À travers cinq républiques à cheval ; être un compte de nombreuses errances en Amérique du Sud . paresseux. Darwin rapporte qu'il a demandé à deux hommes baby love : Pourquoi ne pas vous ? L'un dit : Les jours sont trop long ! Un autre a répondu : je suis trop pauvres. Avec ces gens-là rien ne peut réussir unlessit est commencé quand la lune est en augmentation. Theresult est que peu est accompli. Vous ne pouvez pas faire le pilote, et le yourhaste comprendre taureaux comprendre et stillless soins. Les moustiques font de leur mieux pour manger vous upalive, à moins que votre corps a déjà eu tous les theblood aspiré hors d'elle, une humiliante, un douloureux

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Through five republics on horseback; being an account of many wanderings in South America . lazy. Darwin relates that he asked two men thequestion: Why dont you work? One said: The days are too long! Another answered: I am too poor. With these people nothing can succeed unlessit is begun when the moon is on the increase. Theresult is that little is accomplished. You cannot make the driver understand yourhaste, and the bullocks understand and care stillless. The mosquitoes do their best to eat you upalive, unless your body has already had all theblood sucked out of it, a humiliating, painful anddisfiguring process. You must carry with yousufficient food for the journey, or it may happenthat, like me, you are only able to shoot a smallring dove, and with its entrails fish out of themuddy stream a monster turtle for the eveningmeal. If, on the other hand, you pass a solitaryhouse, they will with pleasure give you a sheep.If you killed one without permission your punish-ment would perhaps be greater than if you hadkilled a man.If a bullock becomes ill on the road, the driver 44. Y. - 45 The Argentine Repuhlic. will, with his knife, cut all around the sod wherethe animal has left its footprint. Lifting thisout, he will cut a cross on it and replace it theother side uppermost. This cure is most im-plicitly believed in and practised. The making of the cross is supposed to dogreat wonders, which your guide is never tiredof recounting while he drinks his mdU in theunbroken stillness of the evening. Alas! themany bleaching bones on the road testify thatthis, and a hundred other such remedies, are notalways effectual, but the mind of the native isso full of superstitious faith that the testimonyof his own eyes will not convince him of theabsurdity of his belief. As he stoops over thefire you will notice on his breast some trinket oirelic, which, he assures you, will save him fromevery unknown and unseen danger in his landvoyage. Let it not be imagined that he carriesno weapons

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