Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . sthus: Su labio no se pintoCon clavel, coral ne grana,Sino con sangre que manaDel corazon que partio.^ But the true Argentine Gauchos, who were wont, inyears gone by, to career over the plains lassoing wild cat-tle, or capturing untamed horses with the tolas, are rapidlydisappearing. In the more settled parts of the countrythey are no longer to be seen. The few that remain haveretired to the northwestern part of the Republic, or tothe sparsely inhabited sections of Patagonia. We saw but
Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . sthus: Su labio no se pintoCon clavel, coral ne grana,Sino con sangre que manaDel corazon que partio.^ But the true Argentine Gauchos, who were wont, inyears gone by, to career over the plains lassoing wild cat-tle, or capturing untamed horses with the tolas, are rapidlydisappearing. In the more settled parts of the countrythey are no longer to be seen. The few that remain haveretired to the northwestern part of the Republic, or tothe sparsely inhabited sections of Patagonia. We saw butfew of them, and these were near the foothills of the them goes much of the local color of the them, also, departs a class of men who contributed *0 my dove, my white dove, why hast thou two wings for only one heart?Tis because my bosom shelters the love which thou gavest me, and I needtwo wings for the two souls I have. ^ It is not the color of the jiink, the coral or the cochineal which reddensthy lips, but that of the blood which gushes from the heart which thou hastpierced. 194. Two Rival Payadores in a Poetical Tournament.
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