. The Spanish-American republics . vines. The grape thrives very well in these parts, and viticulture will * The first carreta was built in Tucuman more than three hundred years ago, for servicebetween Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, and Peru, Tucuman being the nearest point where goodtimber was to be obtained. These carts, drawn by six or eight yokes of oxen, traced theroads, which are still the main roads of the republic, and the original model, both of cartand of road, has been faithfully perpetuated. t I have purposely avoided descriptions of life on the South American estancias. Pre-vious travelle
. The Spanish-American republics . vines. The grape thrives very well in these parts, and viticulture will * The first carreta was built in Tucuman more than three hundred years ago, for servicebetween Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, and Peru, Tucuman being the nearest point where goodtimber was to be obtained. These carts, drawn by six or eight yokes of oxen, traced theroads, which are still the main roads of the republic, and the original model, both of cartand of road, has been faithfully perpetuated. t I have purposely avoided descriptions of life on the South American estancias. Pre-vious travellers have written copiously about the subject, and satiated us with verbiageabout gaudios, rounding-up, or rodeo, branding, sheep-shearing, and what not. The inci-dents of pastoral life are more or less the same all over the world. The South Americangaudio is the brother of the Northern cowboy, and from the point of view of picturesque-ness and strongly marked character, the cowboy is, perhaps, the more interesting figure ofthe ARGENTINE PROVINCIAL SKETCHES. 311 doubtless become in time one of the important industries of thesouthern part of the province of Buenos Ayres. The town of Bahia Blanca is incipient and unlovely. There is avast and neglected plaza surrounded by unpretentious edifices—thechurch, the municipal buildings, the police station and barracks, thehouses of the English, Danish, and Spanish consulates, a few largegeneral stores, two immense cafes and billiard-rooms, and a dreadfulHotel de Londres. The streets are rather swampy; one only is paved;and altogether it is as dismal, dull, and dirty a place as one couldwish to see. Its greatness, like that of many other towns marked inbig letters on the maps of the Argentine, is mostly on paper and inthe future. Near the railway station are some extensive warehousesbelonging to the German consul, where wool is baled on a large scale,and shipped from the port of Bahia Blanca, distant by rail five kilo-metres from th
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