herd to pasture in the deep lush grass. The rest of us rode up some
rising ground towards the wood. There we drew up, and looking back
towards the plain on which the horses seemed to have dwindled to the size
of sheep in the half-light, some one, I think it was Arena, or perhaps
Pablo Suarez, spoke their elegy: “Eat well,” he said; “there is no grass
like that of La Pileta, to where you go across the sea. The grass in
Europe all must smell of blood.”
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NOTES.
{22} _Porteño_, literally a man born in the port of Buenos Aires, but is
also applied to any one born in the province of Buenos Aires.
{25} _Benbax ceiba_, a large tree with spongy, light wood, that has
immense bunches of purple flowers.
{27} Pingo in Argentina is a good horse. Pucha is a euphemism for
another word.
{28} Elbow of a river.
{114a} Lopez Cogulludo, _Historia de Yucatan_.
{114b} Era gran Escriturario.
{115} El sagrado misterio de la encarnacion de el eterno Verbo.
{116a} Los barbaros infideles.
{116b} Entendiendo que era animal de razon.
{118} Arrebatado de un furioso selo de la honra de Dios.
{187} Wild horse.
{190} Argentine saddle.
{194a} _Golilla_, which originally meant a ruff, is now used for a
handkerchief round the neck.
{194b} _Cojinillo_, part of the recado.
{201} _Malacara_, literally Badface, is the name used for a white-faced
horse. In old days in England such a horse was called Baldfaced.
{202} Little troop.