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A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER V
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Of these we gathered and brought home many." (5/19.

Kerr's "Collection of Voyages" volume 8 page 119.) Nam simul expletus dapibus, vinoque sepultus Cervicem inflexam posuit, jacuitque per antrum Immensus, saniem eructans, ac frusta cruenta Per somnum commixta mero.
During my stay at Bahia Blanca, while waiting for the "Beagle," the place was in a constant state of excitement, from rumours of wars and victories, between the troops of Rosas and the wild Indians.
One day an account came that a small party forming one of the postas on the line to Buenos Ayres had been found all murdered.

The next day three hundred men arrived from the Colorado, under the command of Commandant Miranda.

A large portion of these men were Indians (mansos, or tame), belonging to the tribe of the Cacique Bernantio.

They passed the night here; and it was impossible to conceive anything more wild and savage than the scene of their bivouac.


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