Through the heart of Patagonia . T. R. D. BURBUKY SOUTHWARD HO! 21. OF Trelew itself is a bare settlement of raw-looking houses andshanties, which has started up on the emptiness of the pampas. Itcannot lay any claim to picturesqueness, and a pervading impres-sion of being unfinished adds a suggestion of discomfort tothe place. All round about the mud houses the pampa rollsaway to the dis-tances, harsh, stony,overgrown with littlehumpy bushes ofthorn and dottedhere and there withwheat - land. Allthrouo^h and over thesettlement vou arenever out of hearinorof three l
Through the heart of Patagonia . T. R. D. BURBUKY SOUTHWARD HO! 21. OF Trelew itself is a bare settlement of raw-looking houses andshanties, which has started up on the emptiness of the pampas. Itcannot lay any claim to picturesqueness, and a pervading impres-sion of being unfinished adds a suggestion of discomfort tothe place. All round about the mud houses the pampa rollsaway to the dis-tances, harsh, stony,overgrown with littlehumpy bushes ofthorn and dottedhere and there withwheat - land. Allthrouo^h and over thesettlement vou arenever out of hearinorof three lano-uaQ^es—English, Welsh andSpanish. For thirty-five years the W^elsh have lived in this little colony of their ownfounding. Exactly all the reasons which led them to forsake theirfar-off homes for Patagonia it would serve no purpose to set outin detail, but the root of the matter appears to have lain inthe fact that they objected to the laws relating to the teaching ofEnglish in the schools ; and, having the courage of their convic-tions, they came several th
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