. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. e variety of races as the Argentine Republic, J|The products of immense herds of cattle and sheep form the staple export of Uruguay ; the extract of meat trade has become extensive Cattle ^ l^f-© years. At Fray Bentos, the headquarters of this slaughtering, industry, cattle are killed and cut up with remarkable speed, 1,000 and 1,200 oxen a day being sometimes disposed of. Su
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. e variety of races as the Argentine Republic, J|The products of immense herds of cattle and sheep form the staple export of Uruguay ; the extract of meat trade has become extensive Cattle ^ l^f-© years. At Fray Bentos, the headquarters of this slaughtering, industry, cattle are killed and cut up with remarkable speed, 1,000 and 1,200 oxen a day being sometimes disposed of. Suddenly I THE EASTERN SOUTH AMERICANS. killed, the animals are almost as quickly cut up, tlie meat being saltedwhile still fresli and warm. Paraguay is in many respects peculiar among the South AmericanStates. It is the most unfortunate, the most secluded, the most tyrannisedover, and perhaps naturally the best favoured of all. Asuncion,its capital, was one of the earliest founded of Spanish cities inAmerica, and the seat of a Spanish governor. Early in the seventeenthcentury the Jesuits established themselves in the country, and wereallowed a free hand Avith the natives. They baptized the Indian tribes, DANCE OF THli BAYEXTE BY THE YAUUAS, BEAZIL. built towns, founded missions, gave the tamed savages- pacific, indus-trious, and passively obedient habits ; married them by wholesale, biddingthe youths of the two sexes stand up in opposite rows, and saving themthe trouble of a choice by pointing out to every Jack his Jenny ; drilledand marshalled them to their daily tasks in processions and at the soundof the church bells, headed by holy images ; and in their leisure hoursamused them with church ceremonies and any amount of music anddancing and merry-making (Gallenga). Their control became almostabsolute over the Spanish immigrants and government, till, in 1767, theydeparted, when their sway had become unendurable. Paraguay declared XIII, 3 F 8o2 THE INHABITANTS OF AME
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