They sought beneath the tufts of grass and bushes for a few dry twigs, and these they rubbed into fibres; then surrounding them with coarser twigs, something like a bird's nest, they put the rag with its spark of fire in the middle and covered it up.

The nest being then held up to the wind, by degrees it smoked more and more, and at last burst out in flames.

I do not think any other method would have had a chance of succeeding with such damp materials.
MAY 19, 1834.
Each morning, from not having ridden for some time previously, I was very stiff.

I was surprised to hear the Gauchos, who have from infancy almost lived on horseback, say that, under similar circumstances, they always suffer.

St.Jago told me, that having been confined for three months by illness, he went out hunting wild cattle, and in consequence, for the next two days, his thighs were so stiff that he was obliged to lie in bed.