In fighting, his first attempt is to throw down the horse of his adversary with the bolas, and when entangled by the fall to kill him with the chuzo.

If the balls only catch the neck or body of an animal, they are often carried away and lost.

As the making the stones round is the labour of two days, the manufacture of the balls is a very common employment.

Several of the men and women had their faces painted red, but I never saw the horizontal bands which are so common among the Fuegians.

Their chief pride consists in having everything made of silver; I have seen a cacique with his spurs, stirrups, handle of his knife, and bridle made of this metal: the head-stall and reins being of wire, were not thicker than whipcord; and to see a fiery steed wheeling about under the command of so light a chain, gave to the horsemanship a remarkable character of elegance.
(PLATE 19.