The nature of the country also favours this, for instead of a grassy plain, there is an open woodland, composed of low prickly mimosas.

We passed some houses that had been ransacked and since deserted; we saw also a spectacle, which my guides viewed with high satisfaction; it was the skeleton of an Indian with the dried skin hanging on the bones, suspended to the branch of a tree.
In the morning we arrived at St.Fe.I was surprised to observe how great a change of climate a difference of only three degrees of latitude between this place and Buenos Ayres had caused.

This was evident from the dress and complexion of the men--from the increased size of the ombu-trees--the number of new cacti and other plants--and especially from the birds.

In the course of an hour I remarked half-a-dozen birds, which I had never seen at Buenos Ayres.

Considering that there is no natural boundary between the two places, and that the character of the country is nearly similar, the difference was much greater than I should have expected.
OCTOBER 3 AND 4, 1833.
I was confined for these two days to my bed by a headache.