Old gauchos have told me that fifty years ago they were abundant all over the pampas, but have disappeared wherever the giant grasses have been eaten down, and have given place to a different vegetation.
To the Gauchos of Uruguay "inhumanity and love of bloodshed become second nature.
The Gauchos of central Uruguay speak Spanish with harsh rough accents.
It is in the Middle Ages that we could find the nearest parallels to the Gauchos above.
A ride of five leagues, after a day passed in an adventurous gallop, is but a trifle for gauchos mounted on the untiring horses of the pampa.
The second troop, of which we have not yet spoken, was composed of some thirty horsemen at the most, all wearing the characteristic and picturesque costume of the gauchos of the pampa.
It would appear that these worthy gauchos have found your baggage suit them, and that the idea has occurred to them to seize upon it--that is all.
A party of gauchos came loping up, and two of them tied their ropes to the car and pulled it backward onto firm ground.
His features were regular, with restless sparkling black eyes, and complexion about the same as that of the Gauchos of the Rio de la Plata.
The manner of racing is something similar to that in vogue amongst the Gauchos in the provinces of Rio de la Plata, except that it is generally conducted on principles of fair play.
From the hock and lower part of the hind legs boots may be constructed similar to those made from horse hide, and in common use amongst the Indians and also the gauchos of Plata.
That this is not merely owing to the inclemency of the climate is proved by the appetite for fat which the gauchosin the Argentine provinces acquire.
The Gauchos of Patagonia are not nearly patient enough with the mouths of their mounts, spoiling many by harsh treatment.
The most usual method of obtaining them is to run them down with dogs or to bolas them after the manner of the Indians and Gauchoson horseback.
Sometimes, of course, the horses "clear," and then it is that the Gauchos in charge find them by tracking.
At night the mares are hobbled and the horses turned loose; while the Gauchos light their camp-fire and drink mate through the bombilla.
Four Gauchos of the lower sort were playing cards for beans and shrieking over their game.
Huemul or Guemal of the Argentines and Chilians; Ciervo of the Gauchos of Southern Patagonia; Shoan of the Tehuelches.
There is a theory among the Gauchos that a cruzado will never tire.
I have never seen more than nineteen chicks with a single ostrich at any period within a month or two of the hatching, but I was informed by the Gauchos that this number is not an outside limit.
This fact has been commented on to us by many different Gauchos and cattle-owners up and down the east coast.
The poncho used by the gauchos is a thick woolen blanket of oblong shape, with a slit in the center so that it may fall over the wearer's shoulders.
The balls differ in size and weight, depending on the kind of game the gauchos wish to catch.
Así se ve a estos gauchos=, thus these gauchos are seen.
The place was a very large horse-farm, but the Gauchos could tell them little or nothing of what they wanted to know, for their trade was all with Santiago or Cordoba, and they never had occasion to use the river.
As he turned to look back, the sound of approaching horses caught his ear, and he saw an Indian and three Gauchos riding at full speed, followed closely by a man who rode like a European.
Gauchos sometimes capture them by suddenly charging down the wind upon them, uttering loud shouts which greatly terrify the birds, and when they attempt to rise with the wind they only flap along the ground and are easily knocked over.
While watching their antics, which the Gauchos call the Teru's quadrilles, a curious subject of inquiry suggested itself to my mind.
Captive birds, however, can be made to fight; and I have known Gauchos take them for the pleasure of witnessing their battles.
The gauchos have a saying comparing a man who grumbles at good fortune to the Chimango crying on a carcass; an extremely expressive saying to those who have listened to the distressful wailings of the bird over its meat.
The lasso is used in catching the animals, but not so skillfully as by the Gauchos of Rio Plata.
The poncho, so peculiar to the West Coast and to the Gauchos of Buenos Ayres, is a piece of cloth of divers colors, with a slit in the centre, through which the head is passed.
Persecuted no longer, nay, even caressed by the government, he returned to his native plains, to stalk with added haughtiness and new titles to esteem among his brother Gauchos of La Rioja.
Seated upon a dried bull's-hide, each man with his unsheathed knife placed ostentatiously at his side, the jollyGauchos commence their game.
At length restored to consciousness, after some convulsive plunges he again gets on his feet, and is led by a further relay of Gauchos to a post, where he is saddled and bridled in spite of his struggles.
The rhea is hunted by the Gauchos and Indians on horseback.
Should the Gauchos kill an animal when this is the case, they bury the flesh in the earth, by which means the taint is removed, and it becomes eatable.
The gauchos of the Pampas, observing the birds rise together on the wing, hurry with men and dogs to the chase.
The gauchos say, that when wandering at night, it is frequently followed by foxes yelping at its heels.
He advances towards the herd, followed by two mounted Gauchos dressed in full costume.
Regaining his strength, he plunges, kicks, and bites in all directions, the Gauchosnimbly getting out of his way.
Old gauchos used to tell me that twenty or more years ago one often met with a reciter of ballads who could relate the whole story of the Bien-te-veo.
The first occasion was at a big gathering of gauchos when Barboza was asked and graciously consented to sing a decima--a song or ballad consisting of four ten-line stanzas.
Indians and gauchoswere sent flying south like thistle-down before the wind; but all being well-mounted, not many were killed.
It is commonly said among the gauchos that when a man has proved his prowess by killing a few of his opponents, he is thereafter permitted to live in peace.
When several gauchos are galloping over the plain, chasing horses, hunting or marking cattle, the one who is head of the gang shouts his directions at the top of his voice.
The full horror of it came only a few years later, when I was big enough to go about to the native houses and among the gauchos in their gatherings, at cattle-partings and brandings, races, and on other occasions.
When out riding I went oftenest in the direction of Los Alamos, which was west of us, or as the gauchos would say, "on the side where the sun sets.
On arrival Don Amaro was conducted to the drawing-room, followed by all the others; and when all were seated, including the four old gauchos wearing swords, the Alcalde addressed my parents and informed them of the object of the visit.
I know that these shopkeepers have their deposits of arms, and that hordes of gauchos are assembling outside.
What can gauchosdo with their lassoes and boleadores against troops?
Now, let the four Gauchos attend to the horses, to see they do not stampede.
At this moment they were joined by the two Gauchos who had been left with the horses, but who now, hearing the firing, had arrived to take part in the fray.
Mr. Hardy at last sent Charley back, accompanied by Mr. Cook, to request Mr. Percy to come on at once with the Gauchos to give their opinion.
Many of the Gauchos take up their abode permanently with the Indians, being adopted as members of the tribe, and living and dressing like the Indians themselves.
One of the Gauchos now told Mr. Hardy that he knew that at a short distance further to the west there was a spring of water much used by the Indians, and where he had no doubt they had halted on the night of the fire.
And in which direction do the Gauchos believe that their camping-ground lies?
After riding for two hours longer Mr. Hardy consulted the Gauchos if there were any stream near, but they said that it would be at least two hours' riding before they reached another, and that that was a very uncertain supply.
And now, Lopez, do you know of any of the Gauchos in this part of the country who have ever lived with the Indians, and know their country at all?
The Gauchos were silent a minute; then Perez said, "The next stream is fifteen miles further; but it is small, and would not stop the fire going with the wind.
Two mounted gauchos place their stallions side by side, and crowd them against each other to see which will yield.
A fight between gauchos always means murder, and it is the duty of him who kills to see that his victim is decently buried and the widow and orphans cared for.
The widow, if she pleases him, becomes his wife or his mistress, and the orphans grow up to be gauchos under his tutelage.
When she is a maiden the gauchos will kill each other out of jealousy, but when she becomes a wife or a mistress she is kicked about the camp, beaten, and abandoned at her master’s will.
If the duel is an earnest one, as often occurs, and the gauchosare determined, the man who is caught is often dragged, with a noose around his neck, behind a galloping horse until the life is choked and pounded out of his body.
The animals the gauchos ride are splendid native stallions, as swift as the wind and as enduring as time.
One of the sports of the gauchos is “breaking horses,” cruel and dangerous, like all their amusements.
The gauchos are the descendants of the aristocratic Spanish dons and Indian women; for the grandees and hidalgos who once ruled these colonies did not hesitate to seek the society of the Pocahontases of the Guarani race.
The gauchosremained before him silent and motionless.
When the gauchos awoke at break of day, they were alone; Zeno Cabral had gone, having taken French leave.
The gauchos were profuse in thanks, made their most gracious bows, and prepared to withdraw.
Let us talk then," said Don Pablo, seating himself on the grass, and making a sign to the gauchos to take their seats near him.
There was a pause of a few minutes, during which the twogauchos yawned, so as almost to put their jaws out of joint.
And spurring his horse, he emerged from the thicket, leaving the gauchos there, in a state of jubilation impossible to describe.
Notwithstanding the large share of effrontery with which they were by nature endowed, it was nevertheless with timidity that the gauchos approached the warriors, before whom they stopped, after having humbly bowed to them.
Meanwhile thegauchos had left the woods, and had retaken, at a smart pace, the path which was to lead them to the Rio Dulce, until they heard the gallop of a horse.
The gauchos did not wait for a repetition of the invitation which they had had; they prepared immediately to profit by the permission given them, and took themselves off at a smart gallop in the direction of the Rio Dulce.
The disturbance began by some hundreds of Gauchos from the country galloping into the town, shouting "Viva la religion!
The Gauchos in the country exist upon beef: bread is a rarity with them.
Meantime Güemes had entered the Sierra to the east of Salta, and on the 9th and 18th, two parties of his Gauchos surprised two detachments of the enemy.
Our country can do nothing more here than act on the defensive, for which war the brave Gauchos of Salta suffice, if aided by two squadrons of regular troops.
But La Serna was held in check by the Gauchos of Salta and Jujui under Martin Güemes, and the successful passage of the Andes by San Martin forced upon him a disastrous retreat.
With the country up in arms, and the exasperated gauchos harassing his march, the Spanish general did not dare leave Belgrano's army behind him.
Trusting the defence of the Bolivian frontier to a few line soldiers and the gauchos of Salta, San Martin solicited and obtained an appointment as Governor of Cuyo.
Between the aristocratic Montevideans and the gauchosof the country districts there was little sympathy.
The adherents of the two historical imperial parties and the gauchos of the southern part of the state joined the movement enthusiastically.
Early in 1811, Artigas with a band of gauchos from Entre Rios crossed the Uruguay and overran the country up to the walls of the fortress, defeating the Spaniards in the battle of Piedras.
The semi-nomadic habits of the gauchos made such a migration easy, and they quickly found new homes on the opposite shore in Entre Rios, whence it would be easy to return as soon as the Portuguese troops retired.
In March, 1825, a rebellion against Pedro broke out in Uruguay, and the Argentine gauchos swarmed over the border.
With a considerable army of gauchos from both banks of the Uruguay and of patriots from Buenos Aires he began a siege of Montevideo.
Agricultural in their habits, they disliked the hard-riding gauchos of the southern plains hardly less than the turbulent Indians of the Chaco.
The gauchos of the southern provinces rose en masse to fight the unitarian regulars, while the generals of the latter began a series of campaigns against all the federalist provincial governments and caudillos.
The vast plains between the settlements were largely governed patriarchally by the ranch owners and the popular and capable gauchoswho grew into leaders.
He himself joined Lopez, the caudillo of Santa Fe, while he left behind a considerable force of his gauchos to threaten the city from the south.
Leaving the dance, as Braulio Islas said, as more “conformable” to Gauchosthan to serious men we started bargaining.
The Gauchos often lay a deer-skin on their saddles, and wear boots made of deer-skin, alleging that serpents are afraid to touch them.
The population, sparse and indolent, a hybrid breed between the Gauchos and the Chanar Indians, who at the conquest retreated into the thickest swamps and islands of the River Plate.
For such was the popularity of Artigas that a few days' halt sufficed for a number of fresh Gauchos and Indians to join him.
His Gauchos dashed full gallop into Sarratea's camp, and drove off with them all the horses that they found within the establishment.
A group of officers in dark uniforms and red kepis rub shoulders with Gauchos and peones in dark clothes and black or blue bombachos.
As a last effort, Artigas, daring the aggressive even at this stage, hurled his intrepid Gauchos and Misiones Indians once more over the frontier into Brazilian territory itself.
In the meanwhile the carancho birds are gathering thickly above, for meat is cheap upon the open pastures, and they will be economically-minded Gauchos indeed who do not leave them the greater share of the carcass.
As the riders draw nearer it is plain that they are Gauchos--Gauchos in a workaday mood, and consequently in attire far less picturesque than that which lends colour to their feast days.
It has been said that it is a wise child who knows his own father; but among theGauchos it was a remarkable woman who had any assured ideas as to the father of any particular one of her children.
On the contrary, the Gauchos were usually profoundly superstitious and were apt to be devout members of the Roman Communion.
But he made his campaign according to the rules of regular European warfare, and though the gauchos of Salta did not venture to give him battle they kept up a harassing series of night attacks, ambushes, and daring forays into his very lines.
In far away Argentina, the town of Buenos Aires and the gauchos were still defiant, but elsewhere in all Spanish South America resistance to the King's generals had ceased.
However, no one dreamed of resistance; the partisans of the proscribed patriots and the votaries of independence and liberalism were delighted; San Martin with his host of hardy gauchos and Chilean exiles assumed full control of the capital.
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