The only thing for which I ever saw mares used, was to tread out wheat from the ear, for which purpose they were driven round a circular enclosure, where the wheat-sheaves were strewed.

The man employed for slaughtering the mares happened to be celebrated for his dexterity with the lazo.

Standing at the distance of twelve yards from the mouth of the corral, he has laid a wager that he would catch by the legs every animal, without missing one, as it rushed past him.
There was another man who said he would enter the corral on foot, catch a mare, fasten her front legs together, drive her out, throw her down, kill, skin, and stake the hide for drying (which latter is a tedious job); and he engaged that he would perform this whole operation on twenty-two animals in one day.

Or he would kill and take the skin off fifty in the same time.

This would have been a prodigious task, for it is considered a good day's work to skin and stake the hides of fifteen or sixteen animals.
NOVEMBER 26, 1833.
I set out on my return in a direct line for Monte Video.