. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. SOUTHWARD HO! 21 Trelew itself is a bare settlement of raw-looking houses and shanties, which has started up on the emptiness of the pampas. It cannot lay any claim to picturesqueness, and a pervading impres- sion of being unfinished adds a suggestion of discomfort to the place. All round about the mud houses the pampa rolls away to the dis- . __ tances, harsh, stony, overgrown with little humpy bushes of thorn and dotted here and there with wheat - land. All through and over the. WELSH SETTLEMENT OF TRELEW settlement vou are never out of hear
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. SOUTHWARD HO! 21 Trelew itself is a bare settlement of raw-looking houses and shanties, which has started up on the emptiness of the pampas. It cannot lay any claim to picturesqueness, and a pervading impres- sion of being unfinished adds a suggestion of discomfort to the place. All round about the mud houses the pampa rolls away to the dis- . __ tances, harsh, stony, overgrown with little humpy bushes of thorn and dotted here and there with wheat - land. All through and over the. WELSH SETTLEMENT OF TRELEW settlement vou are never out of hearing of three languages— English, Welsh and Spanish. For thirty-five years the Welsh have lived in this little colony of their own founding. Exactly all the reasons which led them to forsake their far-off homes for Patagonia it would serve no purpose to set out in detail, but the root of the matter appears to have lain in the fact, that they objected to the laws relating to the teaching of English in the schools ; and, having the courage of their convic- tions, they came several thousand miles across the sea to escape the rdgime they disliked. At present, however, they seem to have slipped from the frying-pan into the fire, for they like still less the Argentine code, by which every man born in the Republic is sub- ject to conscription and Sunday drilling. Some time ago the colonists of Trelew appealed to England to intercede for them with the Argentine Government with a view to obtaining release from these disabilities. But as the Welsh had of their own free will deliberately placed themselves under the Government of the Republic, it was impossible for England to interfere, and this fact was notified to the suppliants, much to their disappointment and disgust. Even when I was there they. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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