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  1. I had no idea how well man and horse suited each other: as the Peons were galloping about they reminded me of the Elgin marbles about 12 hours ago from TheBeagle
  2. Peons crossing the flooded river - as soon as the horse is out of its depth, the man slips backwards & seizing the tail is towed across about 15 hours ago from TheBeagle
  3. Rose early in the hopes of being able to ride a good distance; it was a vain attempt, for all the rivers were flooded about 18 hours ago from TheBeagle
  4. I asked two men why they did not work. One gravely said the days were too long; the other that he was too poor 8:38 AM Nov 14th from TheBeagle
  5. In fights each party tries to mark the face of his adversary by slashing his nose or eye - often attested by deep and horrid-looking scars 4:38 AM Nov 14th from TheBeagle
  6. These last days were lost by true Spanish delay in giving me my passport, letters &c &c 1:38 AM Nov 14th from TheBeagle
  7. Mr Martens, an excellent landscape drawer, has joined us. He is a pleasant person, & like all birds of that class, full up with enthusiasm 7:38 AM Nov 13th from TheBeagle
  8. I wonder if England ever hears of these revolutions, which are considered so important in this poor country 4:38 AM Nov 13th from TheBeagle
  9. There is peace at last a Buenos Ayres, so that I have lost very little of my property 2:38 AM Nov 13th from TheBeagle
  10. My scheme is to go to Colonia del Sacramiento, then up the coast of the Uruguay to the R. Negro, to the town of Mercedes - from thence back 7:38 AM Nov 12th from TheBeagle
  11. We are all beginning to long for blue water - I am sure I do, if it is merely to prevent my spending money 4:38 AM Nov 12th from TheBeagle
  12. The whole coast of Patagonia is now charted & please Providence, we trust by late in the Autumn to say the same of Tierra del Fuego 1:38 AM Nov 12th from TheBeagle
  13. A have found one skeleton - sufficiently mutilated - of an animal, which I do not think there exists at present on the globe any relation 8:38 AM Nov 11th from TheBeagle
  14. I am sending home nearly 200 skins of birds & the smaller quadrupeds & a fine set of fossil bones. 5:38 AM Nov 11th from TheBeagle
  15. The sort of interest I take in this voyage, is so different a feeling to any thing I ever knew before 2:38 AM Nov 11th from TheBeagle
  16. The Captain is eating an enormous hole into his capital, for sake of advancing all the objects of the voyage 7:38 AM Nov 10th from TheBeagle
  17. Life is not worth having in these miserable climates, after one peep of the blue skys & the Bananas of the Tropics 5:38 AM Nov 10th from TheBeagle
  18. The incumbrance of a box & fly net is not trifling when I have to carry Geological tools, fire-arms, spirit-bottle for reptiles &c &c 2:38 AM Nov 10th from TheBeagle
  19. The facilities offered to all foreigners should be recollected with gratitude by those who have visited Spanish South America. 7:38 AM Nov 9th from TheBeagle
  20. Many officers cannot read or write, yet meet in society as equals - the absence of gentlemen by profession appears to an Englishman strange 5:38 AM Nov 9th from TheBeagle