I am bound to express, in the strongest terms, my obligation to the government of Buenos Ayres for the obliging manner in which passports to all parts of the country were given me, as naturalist of the "Beagle.") This was taken to General Rosas, who sent me a very obliging message; and the Secretary returned all smiles and graciousness.

We took up our residence in the rancho, or hovel, of a curious old Spaniard, who had served with Napoleon in the expedition against Russia.
We stayed two days at the Colorado; I had little to do, for the surrounding country was a swamp, which in summer (December), when the snow melts on the Cordillera, is overflowed by the river.

My chief amusement was watching the Indian families as they came to buy little articles at the rancho where we stayed.

It was supposed that General Rosas had about six hundred Indian allies.

The men were a tall, fine race, yet it was afterwards easy to see in the Fuegian savage the same countenance rendered hideous by cold, want of food, and less civilisation.
Some authors, in defining the primary races of mankind, have separated these Indians into two classes; but this is certainly incorrect.