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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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  6. These last days were lost by true Spanish delay in giving me my passport, letters &c &c
  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
  8. I wonder if England ever hears of these revolutions, which are considered so important in this poor country
  9. There is peace at last a Buenos Ayres, so that I have lost very little of my property
  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
  11. We are all beginning to long for blue water - I am sure I do, if it is merely to prevent my spending money
  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
  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
  14. I am sending home nearly 200 skins of birds & the smaller quadrupeds & a fine set of fossil bones.
  15. The sort of interest I take in this voyage, is so different a feeling to any thing I ever knew before
  16. The Captain is eating an enormous hole into his capital, for sake of advancing all the objects of the voyage
  17. Life is not worth having in these miserable climates, after one peep of the blue skys & the Bananas of the Tropics
  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
  19. The facilities offered to all foreigners should be recollected with gratitude by those who have visited Spanish South America.
  20. Many officers cannot read or write, yet meet in society as equals - the absence of gentlemen by profession appears to an Englishman strange