The patterns were very pretty, and the colours brilliant; the workmanship of the garters was so good that an English merchant at Buenos Ayres maintained they must have been manufactured in England, till he found the tassels had been fastened by split sinew.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1833.
We had a very long ride this day.

At the twelfth posta, which is seven leagues south of the Rio Salado, we came to the first estancia with cattle and white women.

Afterwards we had to ride for many miles through a country flooded with water above our horses' knees.

By crossing the stirrups, and riding Arab-like with our legs bent up, we contrived to keep tolerably dry.

It was nearly dark when we arrived at the Salado; the stream was deep, and about forty yards wide; in summer, however, its bed becomes almost dry, and the little remaining water nearly as salt as that of the sea.