When living on one of his estancias Don Gregorio was little better housed and fed than his peons, but he ruled over them with an iron hand; short of life and death his power was absolute over most of them, for most of them were slaves.
His two servants had been unable to keep up with him, and he had only accomplished the journey so hastily by changing horses at different estancias on his way.
Not a week passed but he received some accession of strength by small drafts of slaves from the estancias or chacras round about; at the end of January he had 150 men.
The limits of these different estancias were ill defined, their title-deeds being merely a grant of some certain number of leagues of land from the Viceregal Government of Buenos Aires or of Peru.
Many other estancias similarly organised lay scattered about the Pampa, within a day's gallop of the Estancia de Las Barrancas.
Some of the great estancias are being divided and subdivided.
These great estancias often consist of thousands of acres.
There are also large estancias carrying vast herds of cattle, sheep, and horses, while the northern portion has vast forests of very fine and valuable timber.
To show the enormous value of animals and the high standard to which agricultural lands can be brought, mention must be made of two estancias near Buenos Aires, viz.
I have heard Argentines praise Englishmen, who, they say, manage their estancias far and away beyond all others, but at the same time they have told me that they would never allow two Englishmen on their place at once.
Such estancias as these, of course, represent the cream of the land, and Uruguayan "camp" life must not be judged as a whole by such particularly favourable examples.
So far as the militant programme of the revolutionists is concerned, the first sign of an outbreak is invariably the riding away of a number of men from townships and estancias to the woods in the remoter and more lonely districts.
Some of the largest and most imposing of the Uruguayan estancias are situated in the western districts of the Republic.
The peons of the city work upon the estancias when there is anything to be done, travelling five or six miles each day in going to and returning from the scene of their labor.
In addition to his commercial business, Mr. Hale owns and manages some of the largest estancias in the Argentine Republic, having several hundred thousand sheep and sixty thousand cattle.
The rich residents are mostly planters who have estancias in the neighborhood, and live in houses of one or two stories without any pretension to architectural beauty or elegance.
We slept at one of the great estancias of General Rosas.
The estancias are here wide apart; for there is little good pasture, owing to the land being covered by beds either of an acrid clover, or of the great thistle.
The Carranchas, together with the Chimango, constantly attend in numbers the estanciasand slaughtering-houses.
A good many shepherds were killed, and two or three estancias captured and burnt, and the inmates murdered.
Within a range of ten miles there were no less than four estancias owned by Englishmen, besides that of their first friend Mr. Percy.
Everywhere could be seen droves of horses and cattle, while dotted here and there over the plain were the estancias of the proprietors.
Two hundred acres of irrigated land were under cultivation; the dairy contained the produce of a hundred cows; and, altogether, Mount Pleasant was considered one of the finest and most profitable estancias in the province.
On some estancias the cattle, too, were all of one colour, and I remember one estate where the cattle, numbering about six thousand, were all black.
He was sorry not to be able to provide me with another, but at one of the large estancias I would come to next morning I would no doubt be able to get one.
And these trees at the estancias or cattle-ranches were, at the time I am writing about, almost invariably aged and in many instances in an advanced state of decay.
Two hundred acres of irrigated land were under cultivation; the dairy contained the produce of a hundred cows; and altogether Mount Pleasant was considered one of the finest and most profitable estancias in the province.
A good many shepherds were killed, and two or three estancias captured and burned, and the inmates murdered.
The inhabitants are extremely lazy, and on the estancias the men live in indolent ease, their many concubines doing the real labor.
Rising from the plain are many huts, the estancias of the natives, half hidden by the foliage.
The figures here are the average for estancias contiguous to the average plains towns.
As many of these estancias are forty miles square, the only expense incurred are the wages of the herders.
Their only excuse for an existence is that they are the distributing points for an agricultural section and to them the necessities of life are shipped which eventually find their way to the large estancias as the farms are called.
The breeding of sheep has been greatly benefited by the fact that the estancias have been largely in English hands[101] and the proprietors have thus introduced hardy English breeds and good methods.
The beginning was made in Uruguay, but now the Company owns ten estancias in Argentina, nine in Paraguay, and seven in Uruguay.
It was in 1884 that the Kemmerich Company purchased some estancias and built a factory at Santa Elena in Entre Rios.
A great many estancias are in English hands; all over the Pampas are great numbers of young Englishmen managing the estates.
Some of theestancias are larger than the Isle of Wight.
The stock on the Lemco and Oxo estancias is grass-fed, and therefore a different breed finds favour.
The Camp is covered with estancias which are held by estancieros, or squatters.
The interior of the toldo was completely altered, for Nocobotha had placed in it furniture, carried off from the estancias by the Indians.
From childhood blood flows beneath their hands in the estancias at the period of mantaza del ganado (cattle slaughtering), and they thus habituate themselves to the colour of the human purple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estancias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
