. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. TOPOGRAPHY OF ARGENTINA. 443 They were encamped for some time in a village of wooden huts, while lands were being apportioned out to them ; and here they soon showed what manner of colonists they were going to be. Drinking, gambling, and horse-racing was the order of the day. The capital they had brought with them took unto itself wings ; for let the gruigo (European), however knowing in his own land, skin his eyes ere he match himself ou the turf with the simple gaucho of the pampas. Fig. 174.—Cordoba. Scale 1 : 800, 18 Miles. " So thin
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. TOPOGRAPHY OF ARGENTINA. 443 They were encamped for some time in a village of wooden huts, while lands were being apportioned out to them ; and here they soon showed what manner of colonists they were going to be. Drinking, gambling, and horse-racing was the order of the day. The capital they had brought with them took unto itself wings ; for let the gruigo (European), however knowing in his own land, skin his eyes ere he match himself ou the turf with the simple gaucho of the pampas. Fig. 174.—Cordoba. Scale 1 : 800, 18 Miles. " So things went on, and the natives smiled at the ways of the locos Ingkses fmad Englishmen'), won their money, acquired their mortgaged lands, while the colonists diminished woefully in number. Many of these gentlemen ultimately were driven to take any menial work they could get; some died of delirium tremens, others self-despatched with their own revolvers ; the remainder settled down, after the first wild burst was over, with diminished means to the business they had come over to undertake. The prosperous little town of Frayle Muerto. 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 resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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