. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . opular pastime in Argentina and the Hippodrome isone of the sights of the city. The fashionable and theunfashionable, the wealthy and the poor patronize theraces, as they do in France, and Sunday, as in all Latinlands, is the day chosen for the sport. Large sums ofmoney are won and lost at the races. The Argentinos,like the French, are given to gambling and games ofchance. The lottery flourishes among them, and onthe railway-trains, at the street-comers, and in theshops and stores we were constantly approac
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . opular pastime in Argentina and the Hippodrome isone of the sights of the city. The fashionable and theunfashionable, the wealthy and the poor patronize theraces, as they do in France, and Sunday, as in all Latinlands, is the day chosen for the sport. Large sums ofmoney are won and lost at the races. The Argentinos,like the French, are given to gambling and games ofchance. The lottery flourishes among them, and onthe railway-trains, at the street-comers, and in theshops and stores we were constantly approached byvenders of lottery-tickets, soliciting us to take a chance. We lingered long in the Zoological Garden, findingmuch to interest us, but at last the sun began to sinktoward the western horizon, and we were reminded thatit behooved us to return to La Plata. We boarded atram-car, warranted to take us to the Plaza Constitu-cion. The route lay through narrow streets lined bythe low houses which prevail in the residential sectionsof the metropolis. Let not the reader imagine that the. o I 4 Buenos Aires i6i whole of this great city, which nearly equ^ils Philadel-phia in the number of its inhabitants, is laid out withmagnificent boulevards such as the Avenida de far the greater number of the streets of BuenosAires are narrow, conformed to its original plan, run-ning at right angles to each other and closely built upwith houses of the Spanish type one or two stories inheight. Avenues such as the great central thoroughfareleading from the Presidential Mansion to the Capitol,and the splendid Avenida Alvear, on which are gatheredthe homes of many of the wealthy, are the exception,not the rule. Buenos Aires, as we saw it on our ridefrom the Zoological Garden to the station of the FerroCarril du Sud, conveys to the mind an impression offlatness and dull uniformity. Still there were things toarrest attention. We caught the milkman serving hiscustomers rather late in the day. It
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