The war is waged chiefly against the Indians near the Cordillera; for many of the tribes on this eastern side are fighting with Rosas.

The general, however, like Lord Chesterfield, thinking that his friends may in a future day become his enemies, always places them in the front ranks, so that their numbers may be thinned.

Since leaving South America we have heard that this war of extermination completely failed.
Among the captive girls taken in the same engagement, there were two very pretty Spanish ones, who had been carried away by the Indians when young, and could now only speak the Indian tongue.
From their account they must have come from Salta, a distance in a straight line of nearly one thousand miles.

This gives one a grand idea of the immense territory over which the Indians roam: yet, great as it is, I think there will not, in another half-century, be a wild Indian northward of the Rio Negro.

The warfare is too bloody to last; the Christians killing every Indian, and the Indians doing the same by the Christians.