The pampa at this moment resembles a sea with its green and calm waters, the shores of which are hidden behind the horizon.
The wordpampa belongs to the Quechua language, language of the Incas.
The pampa is beautiful at the rising of the sun, is it not?
The exchanges between the various regions of the Pampaare more interesting to the geographer.
Thus the impression of monotony which the Pampa makes in us is corrected to some extent by close observation.
This is one of the regions of the Pampa where the most different types of rural exploitation are mingled together.
But what is most characteristic of the climate of the Pampa is the equal distribution of the rain throughout the year, and the absence of a real dry season.
The making and export of salt beef dates from the eighteenth century, and it was to help this industry that the expeditions to the salt-beds of the Pampa and the journeys of salters to the Patagonian coast were organized.
There is free communication here between the two zones, and the lucerne fields for fattening at Villa Mercedes are used in common by the breeders of the Pampa and of the bush.
In the eighteenth century, in spite of the competition of salt from Cadiz and Patagonia, imported by sea, the Pampa salt was the main part of the supply of Buenos Aires.
Of general works on the Pampa and the Pampean deposits: Fl.
The soil of thePampa is clayey and soft in the districts near the river.
The need to remove the herds in the dry season, and to find invernadas within reach of the former ranches, was due to the change brought about in the natural vegetation of the Pampa and the spread of the pasto dulce.
The actual population of the Pampa ports is not at all in proportion to the part which each plays in the export of Pampean products:-- Export of Cereals in thousands of tons.
This ridge isolates the eastern Pampa from the sub-Andean chains, and marks the limit of the area with sheets of underground water.
He was warmly welcomed by the guides, amongst whom his unequalled proficiency in all that pertains to the pampa craft, and his personal character, had gained him great prestige.
The pampa was strewn with broken bags; and rice, biscuits, and other precious stores lay scattered in all directions.
Besides, as there was no trail of any description across the pampa over which we had that day ridden, it was really no easy matter to hit on the right spot immediately.
Certain it is that the withered pampa grass must contain great nourishing properties, as the guanacos thrive and grow very fat on it.
The pampa creeps up to the very foot of the mountain ranges and where it is watered blossoms like a garden.
Irala's successors repeatedly tried to establish a colony near the mouth of the Plate, but they were not successful until the creoles on horseback had pushed their way south along the pampa and driven back or subdued the wandering Indians.
The braver and more energetic preferred the free open existence of the pampa to idleness in the sleepy villages of Paraguay.
The horses brought over by the adelantados had multiplied amazingly, and were spreading wild over the pampa to the south.
Their dependent states bordering on the Argentine pampa did not cross the desert plains, where irrigating ditches could not reach.
The man who led the creoles to the pampa was Juan de Garay, a Basque, who had been one of the soldiers in the army that conquered Peru.
The grazing pampa is partly included in the Andean provinces; its boundaries to the south and toward the Atlantic are not capable of exact definition, but it includes perhaps half the territory of the Republic.
The cattle of the open pampa gave him an unlimited supply of the best food, and his horses enabled him to procure it with a minimum of effort.
To the west the pampa is bounded by the foothills of the Andes and the parallel chains with which that great mountain system reinforces its flanks.
The southern pampa and the Andean provinces are temperate or subtropical, and admirably adapted for habitation by men of European descent.
Woods seemed to sway and heave, and by the sides of streams bunches of Pampa grass stood stark as sentinels, their feathery tufts looking like plumes upon an Indian’s lance.
Of all the little company only the Pampa Indian showed no sign of being incommoded by the heat.
The Chaco and Pampa habits which stood so much in contrast with the industrial civilization of Peru, and so coincided with the open prairie character of the country, re-appear in Texas.
The Caribs, the Inca Peruvians, the Pampa horsemen, and the Fuegian boatmen represent the four extremes of the South American populations.
Being horseless is of course always a calamity for a gaucho, whether in the pampa or far from it.
It is of interest to note in this connection that the gaucho of the pampa calls this spirit =Mandinga=, who, although evilly inclined toward men, does at times do them favors.
At the grave, the horse on which Nadi and baby had travelled all across the Pampa was thrown and strangled, and all the child's trinkets and playthings and even clothes were burned.
Castizo had to hold his sides, and Nadi, who was next in front, and of course jumped to the conclusion that Peter had done it on purpose, and that he was the most humorous youth under the sun, made the Pampa ring with her merry laughter.
We are preparing for the long march back over the Pampa to Santa Cruz, where Castizo says he doubts not his little yacht is already lying safely at anchor, and his daughter anxiously waiting his appearance.
Thank Heaven no one of us is out on the Pampa to-night, or belated in that dismal forest.
The canoe Indians are called Tehueiche, and the horsemen of the north--the plains or pampa Indians--are called Chenna.
Fifty or sixty miles a day is a gentle jaunt, for a well-bred pampa horse will gallop from sunrise to sunset without throwing a fleck of foam.
Roads fit for driving are still comparatively few and rough, but in level countries like Argentina one drives over the Pampa wherever wire fences do not bar the way.
A third equally striking prospect is that over the Pampa from the high ground of the new park.
Two small streams empty into Lake Pampa Aullaguas, which has a small outlet in the Lacahahuira flowing west for 60 m.
The Pampa Aullaguas has an estimated area of 386 sq.
The two principal lakes of the plateau region are Titicaca and Pampa Aullaguas or Poopo.
Notwithstanding its great vigour it has been proved that the pampa sheep has not so far outgrown the domestic taint as to be able to maintain its own existence when left entirely to itself.
The vulture's eye, with all the advantage derived from the vulture's vast elevation above the scene surveyed, is not so far-reaching as the sense of smell in the pampa horse.
On the desert pampa the gaucho, for a reason that he knows, calls the puma the "friend of man.
I have often been struck with the superiority of the pampa or creolla--the old native breed of sheep--in the greater vigour of the young when born over the improved European varieties.
On moist clayey ground flourishes the stately pampa grass, Gynerium argenteum, the spears of which often attain a height of eight or nine feet.
The stranger who enters a pampa saloon will be asked to drink, without fail.
These pampa vagabonds have extended their routes to the Rio Negro ranches since the destruction of the Indians made it possible to settle the Rio Negro valley.
One would as soon expect to find Stock Exchange brokers working the growler after a day's business as to see a pampa ranch owner bring out a bottle of rum.
The liquor glasses of the pampa saloon are peculiar.
For the roof, a thatch of the longpampa grass is also common.
The pampa saloons sell but two kinds of drinks that are reasonably pure--rum and beer.
These took guns to slay the ostrich, and straightway a man afoot once more became an object of terror, while the smell of powder smoke, it is said, will set the pampa birds running away when the gun is at a distance of two miles.
They say that pampa deer kill a venomous snake by running around it and exhaling an odor from the leg glands that eventually suffocates the reptile.
They are much more frequently seen by travellers than are the Patagonians, because they gather at the pampa railroad stations, and may even be found in certain quarters of Buenos Ayres.
Who built the stone buildings of Espiritu Pampa and Eromboni Pampa?
At Occobamba, or the pampa where oca grows, we found fields of that useful tuber, just now ripening.
Espiritu Pampa does not satisfy the demands of a place which was so important as to give its name to the entire province, to be referred to as "the largest city.
The Indians we met at Espiritu Pampa closely resembled those seen in the lower valley.
They would not have found in Espiritu Pampathe food which they liked.
The pampa on this river where the trees grew would likely receive the name Uilca pampa.
We climbed slowly around the lower spurs of Coropuna into a bleak desert wilderness of lava blocks and scoriaceous sand, the Red Desert, or Pampa Colorada.
Half an hour's scramble through the jungle brought us to a pampa or natural terrace on the banks of a little tributary of the Pampaconas.
From here to Espiritu Pampa our trail followed an ancient stone stairway, about four feet in width and nearly a third of a mile long.
Our first desert, the pampa of Sihuas, was reported to be narrow, so we preferred to cross it by day and see what was to be seen.
I climbed a marvelous great stairway of large granite blocks, walked along a pampa where the Indians had a small vegetable garden, and came into a little clearing.
The agile, hardy, and fierce Pampa Indians, having once fallen foul of the invaders, allowed them no respite.
The Spaniards who found themselves face to face with the Araucanian Indians, and with those of the Pampa on the other side of the Andes, had a far more strenuous tale to tell.
The true pampa is indeed such as the books of travels have depicted it to you, that is, a plain rather arid, and the crossing of which is often difficult.
Yes, such is indeed thepampa of the Rio Colorado, such are the "llanos" of the Orinoco and of Venezuela.
On one of these plains, called the Pampa of Diesmo, in the province of Junin, I was detained some days at the only hut to be seen for leagues.
Piedra succeeds Viedma, attacks the Pampa Tribes, and is defeated.
The pampa Indians have the same feeling, but they keep them for food as well as breeding; mare's flesh by them is preferred to all other, indeed it is their ordinary food.
The Pampa Formation, probably derived from the Alluvial Process now going on, as exhibited in the Beds of the Plata itself and other Rivers.
Their habits and customs, according to his account, seem to differ little from those of the Pampa tribes, of which I shall elsewhere have to speak.
In the vicinity of Buenos Aires the climatic conditions vary very little from those of the pampa region; the mean annual temperature is about 63 deg.
In the southern pamparegion there are many small streams, flowing into the La Plata estuary and the Atlantic; most of these are unknown by name outside the republic.
The La Pampa territory also is dotted with small lakes.
Wood cannot be obtained, glass has not been introduced, so the holes are left as open spaces, across which, when the pampa wind blows, a hide is stretched.
With avidity I feasted my eyes, wearied of the eternal monotony of the pampa horizon, on the varied and sunlit scene before me.
A glance at the above will show that a pampa dinner may be pleasantly varied.
They told me that they had killed the governor and all his family, and that they were now going off to the pampa to escape to the Argentine Republic.
Those who were still sufficiently sober to speak articulately, at times told us that they were going to start off to the pampa immediately, and at others that they intended holding the colony against all comers.
The pampahad dealt rather roughly with my wardrobe.
The wool trade is particularly brisk there, and the cereal trade also, since the Pampa has been transformed into a wonderful agricultural country.
The Pampa Central, of which we have just spoken as a very mine of wealth, is capable of producing in the future enough meat and grain to nourish a great part of the population of the world.
What is it that is responsible for the superiority of the Argentine Pampa over the Russian steppes?
It set forth that Pampa engaged Romano for one year to sell ice-cream in the streets of London; that he should be paid L1 2s.
Pampa should board and lodge him, and provide him with clothes.
He writes: After their arrival in September greater yellow-legs were distributed throughout the open pampa wherever shallow ponds offered suitable feeding places.
