The Great Silver River: Notes of a Residence in Buenos Ayres in 1880 and 1881J. Murray, 1890 - 366 páginas |
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The Great Silver River: Notes of a Residence in Buenos Ayres in 1880 and 1881 Sir Horace Rumbold Vista de fragmentos - 1890 |
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Argen Argentine Argentinia bank Basque Belgrano birds Brazilian brought Buenos Ayres building capital carnival carriages centre CHAP charming Chile Chilean church colonial Corrientes course crowd Crown dark dollars doubt entirely estancia estancieros fact fair figures foreign fortunately French garden Gaucho Government Gran Chaco Guarani half hand horses immigration Indian Italian Itaquí Jesuit Juan de Garay kind ladies land late league light look ment miles millions native night Pampa Paraguay party passed Pedro de Mendoza perfect plaza PLAZA VICTORIA poor population present province of Buenos race railway reached reckoned regions Republic River Plate Rosas rough round Salto San Borja Santo Tomé seems settlers shore side sight soon South American Southern Spanish square steamer stream streets thing tion town trees turned Uruguay Uruguayana whole XVII yards young
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Página 147 - Morir d' un giorno inerte, Chinati i rai fulminei, Le braccia al sen conserte, Stette, e dei dì che furono L' assalse il sovvenir. Ei ripensò le mobili Tende, ei percossi valli, E il lampo dei manipoli, E 1' onda dei cavalli, E il concitato imperio, E il celere obbedir.
Página 265 - ... still lingers and mingles deliciously with the various subdued tints of brown and green around. " This tender tonality lasts but a very short time, the sun shooting upwards with a speed and force that at once completely transforms the picture ; the scorching agencies of light revealing it in its true parched colours and reducing it to a burning arch above, and a scorching and featureless flat below. The fresh, rippling ocean turns into a weary wilderness, stariug up at a breathless, pitiless...
Página 88 - Gaucho has but tbe faintest tinge of Christianity, his religion being made up of childish and degrading superstitions, mainly derived from Indian sources. The schoolmaster so far has hardly reached him, and he has yet to be redeemed if he is to be worked up into a useful element in the new fabric of civilisation that is growing •r. 2 a, ''If . Tt up around him, The national government have an arduous task before them in this direction.
Página 265 - Pacific (1879-1881) between Chile on the one side and Peru and Bolivia on the other.
Página 234 - Salto, where it develops a cascade which arrests the steam navigation except during heavy floods. troubled waters was the general impression at once conveyed. The mighty river, vexed and hindered in its progress by a long succession of step-like reefs, had spread itself out over an immense area, breaking its way in lines of foam through the narrow channels worn by its action, and eddying in the deeper places with a force that made the water appear to be seething upwards from concealed cauldrons....
Página 37 - ... background — treated by their belongings with invariable kindness and respect, but content to remain in timid self-effacement. In looks and dress many of them belong to an entirely different age, and unconsciously make admirable foils to the brilliant modernism of their progeny. To the observant stranger there is something pathetic in one of these poor old dames huddled up with antiquated finery on a sofa in some corner of the room, where the talk and clatter and music around leave her all...
Página 127 - ... point of the horizon, and leaping forth now and then into a great scorching flame, which for a moment lights up the whole world with a lurid blue and yellow. The darkness, too, is very striking, and almost equals that of a dense London fog ; while the heat seems to increase rather than to yield to the storm, and one sits as in a prolonged vapour-bath, with the most trying sense of physical prostration and depression of spirits.
Página 149 - ... and heavy with the smell of blood, and men callously unconcerned at its sight. A profitable trade and occupation for a nation doubtless, but one that keeps alive in it those inborn human instincts of cruelty and savagery, which in our older civilisation have long been curbed and softened down.
Página 72 - ... by the iron barrier of the frontier, which put an end to cattle-lifting on a large scale, and prevented their replenishing the herds of horses which alone made them formidable. The internal dissensions, which so long distracted the Confederation and paralysed its energies, must account for the lack of vigour shown towards these intolerable savages, and the radical manner in which they have now been dealt with is a happy augury that this country has at last reached the era of stable, well-ordered...
Página 265 - The air is full of buzzing and chirping, and of the flutter of wings. So thickly is the Pampa peopled with birds, that it quite produces the effect of an open-air aviary. Brilliant little creatures, with red or yellow breasts...