Through five republics on horseback : being an account of many wanderings in South America . the potters field. Not all prodigals reachhome again; some are buried by the swine-troughs. For some time I was unable to put my feet tothe ground; but Pancho, ever active, tied in a figtree, helped himself to ripe fruit, and took lifemerrily. Pancho and I were eventually able tobid good-bye to Mrs. Sorrows, and, thousands ofmiles down lifes pathway, this little friend and Ijourneyed together, he ever loving and true. Itook him across the ocean, away from his tropicalhome, and—he died. I am not sentime
Through five republics on horseback : being an account of many wanderings in South America . the potters field. Not all prodigals reachhome again; some are buried by the swine-troughs. For some time I was unable to put my feet tothe ground; but Pancho, ever active, tied in a figtree, helped himself to ripe fruit, and took lifemerrily. Pancho and I were eventually able tobid good-bye to Mrs. Sorrows, and, thousands ofmiles down lifes pathway, this little friend and Ijourneyed together, he ever loving and true. Itook him across the ocean, away from his tropicalhome, and—he died. I am not sentimental—nay,I have been accused of hardness—^but I make thisreference to Pancho in loving memory. Unlikesome friends of my life, he was constant andtrue.* •From letters awaiting- me at the post-offlce, I learned, withIntense sorrow and reigret, that my strang-e patron had g:onethe way of all flesh. The land I had been to explore, along:with a bequesit of $250,000, passed into the hands of theBaptist Missionary Soci«ty, to the Secretary of whleh Societyall my reports were given. 198. PANCHO 111993 CHAPTEE XI. CEACO SAVAGES. The Gran Chaco, an immense region in theinterior of tlie continent, said to be 2,500,000square miles in extent, is, without doubt, thedarkest part of The Darkest Land. Fromtime immemorial this has been given up to theIndians; or, rather, they have proved so warlikethat the white man has not dared to enter thevast plain. The Chaco contains a population ofperhaps 3,000,000 of aborigines. These aredivided into many tribes, and speak numerouslanguages. From the military outposts ofArgentina at the south, to the Fort of Olimpo,450 miles north, the country is left entirely tothe savage. The former are built to keep backthe Tobas from venturing south, and the latteris a Paraguayan fort on the Brazilian about one hundred soldiers are quarteredand some fifty women banished, for the Para-guayan Government sends its female convictsthere.* Between the
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