Mare's flesh is the only food which the soldiers have when on an expedition.

This gives them a great facility of movement; for the distance to which horses can be driven over these plains is quite surprising: I have been assured that an unloaded horse can travel a hundred miles a day for many days successively.
The encampment of General Rosas was close to the river.

It consisted of a square formed by waggons, artillery, straw huts, etc.

The soldiers were nearly all cavalry; and I should think such a villainous, banditti-like army was never before collected together.

The greater number of men were of a mixed breed, between Negro, Indian, and Spaniard.