Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . Two Rival Payadores in a Poetical Gaucho Homes. THE ARGENTINE 1»AMPA mucli towards the upbuilding of Argentina. They wereamong the best soldiers during the war of assisted naaterially towards delivering their countryfrom merciless, marauding savages and towards develop-ing the pastoral industry as it existed before the introduc-tion of present scientific methods. As a type, they re-sembled our cowboys of a generation ago, and the Cossacksof southern Russia
Through South America's southland; with an account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America . Two Rival Payadores in a Poetical Gaucho Homes. THE ARGENTINE 1»AMPA mucli towards the upbuilding of Argentina. They wereamong the best soldiers during the war of assisted naaterially towards delivering their countryfrom merciless, marauding savages and towards develop-ing the pastoral industry as it existed before the introduc-tion of present scientific methods. As a type, they re-sembled our cowboys of a generation ago, and the Cossacksof southern Russia of a much earlier date. The more dis-tinguished among them will always have a place in thehistory of Argentina as Daniel Boone and Kit Carson willever receive special notice in the annals of our own But who is the Argentine? I mean the typical Argen-tine, the representative of the soul of the nation, the ex- ^An English writer describing the Gaucho says of him: The Gauchoproper is a class—a race it may be called—by itself, and, like the Indian,is but very slowly modified. Within a radius of very many leagues extendingfrom the chief
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