On the opposite coast, several branches from the latter river entered the Uruguay.

As the sun was shining, the two colours of the waters could be seen quite distinct.
In the evening we proceeded on our road towards Mercedes on the Rio Negro.

At night we asked permission to sleep at an estancia at which we happened to arrive.

It was a very large estate, being ten leagues square, and the owner is one of the greatest landowners in the country.

His nephew had charge of it, and with him there was a captain in the army, who the other day ran away from Buenos Ayres.
Considering their station, their conversation was rather amusing.
They expressed, as was usual, unbounded astonishment at the globe being round, and could scarcely credit that a hole would, if deep enough, come out on the other side.