CHAPTER VI.
Meeting a Drunkard - Native Politeness - Lesson Taught Mo - Spanish-Indian Ferocity - Murdering Swiss, and about Police - Anecdotes of the Danger of Travelling in War-time - Cruel Death of Prisoners - Danger to Foreigners in Interfering - French and English in the “Long War” Ruined - Recompense Enforced. Foreigners Respected - Druidical Remains - Piedra Redondo, and The Movedeza in El Tandil - Cerro di Mala Brigos - Soldiers taking Horses - Taking Carriage Horses - Our Minister - Verses - Advantages of Democracy - Anecdote of Rowdyism - Horses - Little Value of Mares - Boiling Down - Bad Treatment of Horses - Their Sagacity in Lassoing - Travelling Maxims - English Inhabitants - Wrecks - Englishman Sayed by Native Woman - Advantages of the Country - Pictures of Happiness - Effects on the Feelings.
Returning for some leagues through this wild part of the camp amidst the thick broom to the place where I lived, I suddenly emerged on a bullock-cart track. A man was lying m the road; and some bullocks, drawing a cart from the opposite direction,-that was approaching, on seeing him, had just then bolted to one side, out of the road. Not knowing whether he was a murdered man or drunk, I approached him cautiously and spoke to him, and found he was a drunken Irishman, and, with his knife, ready to fight any one. I, of course, gave him elbow room, and passed on, I have seen many drunken savages, in the shape, in particular, of English runaway sailors, and have witnessed them fighting with their teeth, and tearing pieces out of each other’s
