The district of the Pampas which stretches northward to the spurs of the Andes consists of a sandy soil, free from salt, but wholly unproductive.
The Pampas Indians form a mass of tribes dwelling east of the great Cordillera range, from the river Paraguay to the extreme south of the continent.
The Pampas serve as the burial-place for races of gigantic men, now extinct, who seem to issue from their silent graves in testimony to the former being of vanished generations, and to bear witness to the Creator of all things.
The horses and cattle of Europe are replaced in the Pampas of South America by the herds of guanacos and llamas which covered them at the epoch of the Spanish conquest.
In thePampas of tropical America, on the contrary, it is during the hot season that they remain inert in the mud of the dried-up marshes.
There is a larger species called the Mara, or Pampas Hare (Dasyprocta Patachonica), which will wander for miles away from its home.
They descend from the Andes, traverse the Pampas from east to west, and empty themselves into the saline lakes.
Along the banks of the Rio Negro the Pampas of Buenos Ayres stretch from the coast of the Atlantic to the foot of the Andes.
The Pampas of Pernambuco and Buenos Ayres have three times the superficial area of the Llanos of Venezuela.
This is the pampas benchucha (Conorhinus nigrovarius).
Accompanying these, and also on the margins of the water, were huge masses of Pampas grass yet in their beauty of bloom, and many great tufts of the tropical-looking New Zealand flax, with here and there a group of Yuccas.
It comes into flower before the Pampas grass, and may be considered as a sort of forerunner of that magnificent herb.
So hardy, so magnificent in colouring, and so fine in form are these plants, that we can no more dispense with their use in the garden where beauty of form as well as colour is to prevail, than we can with the noble Pampas grass.
A companion for the Pampas grass, though by no means equal to it, as has been stated by some writers.
There is the Pampas grass, which when well grown is unsurpassed by anything that requires protection.
Europe, somewhat like the Pampas grass in habit, but smaller in size, and frequently having violet-tinged leaves.
In short, it deserves to rank high among really hardy fine grasses, the Pampas and the two Arundos alone surpassing it.
Judging by its different appearance when freely grown in a tub indoors, and when planted out even in favourable spots, my impression is that it by no means takes so kindly to our northern climate as the Pampas grass.
Like the other pampas of this region, the flat surface inclines toward the sea.
Not far up the Pampas is the important bridge between Bom-bon and Ocros, which Mr. Hay and I crossed in 1909 on our way from Cuzco to Lima.
Owing to the scarcity of arable land he was obliged to cultivate such pampas as he could find--one an alluvial fan near his house, another a natural terrace near the river.
The wind of the pampas had removed all the skin from our faces, and we were a good deal unlike the individuals who had started from Trelew some four or five weeks before.
Then carts not infrequently break down upon the rough surfaces of the pampas and in the canadones, hence more delay.
Day by day we had been leaving behind us the seemingly limitless pampas and were now drawing close to the full blue range of minaret-shaped mountains.
After a rest in the afternoon we rode on, and presently struck a deserted camp of the Argentine Boundary Commission, near which the steam-launch, which had been brought across the pampas for the exploration of Lake Buenos Aires, was secreted.
But far away in the interior, where a very few pioneers have made their homes beside a lake here and there, the wide and uninhabited pampas lie between the producer and his market.
The Patagonian pampas are covered with thorn and the thin foot-covering of the Indians would be torn to pieces in the course of a two-hours tramp over such ground.
I remember one immense woman in the toldos on the pampas between Lake Argentino and Gallegos, who had put on flesh in a manner and to an extent almost unbelievable.
On the pampas of life here below the guanaco is lean and seldom yields an ounce of fat, and as I have myself experienced the craving for fat, or fat-hunger, I know it to be a very real and uncomfortable demand of the human system.
For the first two days or more the pampas stretched to the rim of the horizon, empty and somewhat harsh even in the sunlight.
The vertebra and femur were found in the lower subdivision of the Pampas formation.
Opinion is much divided as to the exact geological age of the Pampas formation.
The two discoveries mentioned in the preceding chapter were made in the so-called Pampas formation of Argentina.
The pampas of the Argentine have been vividly described by P.
The aspect of the Pampas is desperately monotonous and mournful.
The wind had blown, in a storm from the Pampas during the whole of the day, and filled the atmosphere with an icy chill.
To turn to more important characters: the niata cattle of the Pampas are remarkable from their short foreheads, upturned muzzles, and curved lower jaws.
They know by the accounts of travellers the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, which are also Llanos covered with fine grass, destitute of trees, and filled with oxen and horses become wild.
The river does not reach the most easterly chain, which bounds the Pampasdel Sacramento.
On this account, the vast plains of the Amazon, the Madeira, and the Rio Negro, are not so distinctly bounded as the Llanos of Caracas, and the Pampas of Buenos Ayres.
The tigers of the Upper Orinoco are far less bountifully supplied with prey than those of the Pampas of Buenos Ayres and the Llanos of Caracas, which are covered with herds of cattle.
Horned cattle prosper here without those famous bareros, or muriatiferous lands, which abound in the Pampasof Buenos Ayres.
The intermediate plains, however, covered with forests, are still five times higher than the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and the grass-covered Llanos of Caracas and the Meta.
The Llanos and the Pampasof South America are really steppes.
Gynerium argenteum (pampas grass) is a native of southern Brazil and Argentina.
Land is being extensively put under wheat in the pampas of South America and in the prairies of Siberia.
Paspalum, is a large tropical genus, most abundant in America, especially on the pampas and campos; many species are good forage plants, and the grain is sometimes used for food.
Yet these are not the original wild horses; they are the descendants of tame animals, brought from Europe by the Spaniards to Buenos Aires in 1535, whose descendants have regained their freedom on the boundless pampas and prairies.
In Bolivia there is a large kind known as the Tarush; and on the pampasof Buenos Ayres and Patagonia is a kind called Guazuti, which associates in large herds, and is remarkable for the powerful odour emitted by the bucks.
On the pampas of South America these horses exist in vast droves.
The white-lipped peccaries are found in all the forests of South America--from the Caribbean Sea to the Pampas of Buenos Ayres.
The Egyptian cat and the Pampas cat are sandy or earth-coloured.
In our next volume, "The Insurgent Chief," the adventures of the personages mentioned in this description of Life in the Pampas will be continued.
We shall observe that the bolas--that terrible arm of the gaucho of the pampas in the Banda Oriental--is completely unused in the interior of Brazil.
Near by, silvery plumes of pampas grass gently swayed on their reed-like stems.
The kangaroos of Australia at a little distance seem to disappear into the soil of their respective localities, while the cat of the Pampas accurately reflects his surroundings in his fur.
Gross relates the experience of an Englishman who was compelled to spend the night outdoors on the Pampas of the La Plata.
A noted American scavenger is the peccary, a species of wild hog, whose home ranges from Texas to the Pampas of South America.
The magnificent little animals known to scientists as vizcachas, and whose homes are on the pampas of South America, are the most skilled builders of underground cities in the animal world.
Travellers tell many interesting tales of the play of these animals, especially on the Pampas of South America.
Both the Red Indians of the Prairie and the savages of the Pampasused to surround and destroy the game in exactly the same way.
The Pampasin South America is a similar grassland.
We have said that thePampas gradually changes from being very fertile on the east to being almost a desert on the west.
On the eastern side of the Pampas great changes are beginning to appear.
Here would be the place to mention how an army encamped upon the Pampas finds itself next morning imprisoned and doomed to perish miserably in a forest of giant thistles which has sprung up during the night.
Red Indians of Pampas and Prairie, cowboy and gaucho, lived exactly in the same way.
With them, the red-breasted meadowlarks of the pampas sang and frolicked as if constituting themselves a welcoming committee to the strangers during their annual visit.
But, when at last they reached the forest's end and the boundless reaches of papyrus marshes, pampas and tree islands lay before them Suma did not hesitate to slay whatever came within her reach.
What were you doing all alone, then, in the middle of the Pampas at this hour of the night?
Besides, the hours are too short in the pampas for men to dream of asking such questions.
The idle life on the pampas could not suit Leon, who had dreamed of an active and brilliant existence when he set foot on American soil.
One day when out on the Pampas not far from Buenos Ayres, visiting a friend, and never thinking of dear Mariquita, we saw a young girl coming towards us down the garden walk.
The day had been very sultry, and if our travellers had not been ignorant of the signs of the Pampas they might have known that the day was heavy with the presage of storm.
As they drew nearer it was soon seen to be a Gaucho of the Pampas in full chase of an ostrich.
The colonel marked the look, and with a somewhat grim smile observed that they should see more than enough of the Pampas for some days to come.
Mile after mile was passed as they flew like the wind over the rolling plains, scarcely impeded at all by the Pampas grass, which was not long at that season, but at last they came to a ridge on which there was a line of low bushes.
The man we let go is a gaucho of the Pampas named Cruz.
She'll go back to the wigwam of her father, and I'll go and have a jolly good splitting gallop across the Pampas with Pedro and Quashy.
Horses of the Pampas are not usually jumpers, but Manuela's horse must have had a touch of the hunter in him, for he rose to the leap, and went up like a rocket.
One evening when travelling over the pampas of La Plata, I, with a dozen Gauchos, arrived at a post-house where we meant to put up for the night.
No doubt he was thinking of the tendency exhibited now and then by the aborigines of the Pampas and mountains to raid on the white man now and then, and appropriate his herds as well as scalp himself!
There was a soft, fresh, exhilarating breeze blowing from the Pampas as the troop issued from the little town at a gallop, when the first streak of dawn became visible.
After that, I'll mount and away over the Pampas to Buenos Ayres; see the colonel, and deliver Manuela to her father.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pampas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
