{20} A redomon is a half-tamed horse.
{26} Hydrochoerus capybara.
{32} The Gauchos often lay a deer-skin on their saddles, and wear boots
made of deer-skin, alleging that serpents are afraid to touch them.
{46} Accustomed pasture.
{51} The Brazilians call the tapir “O gran besta.” The Guarani word is
Mborebi.
{52} Potrero is a fenced pasture, from “potro,” a colt.
{54a} “Matto” is a wood in Portuguese, and at these two Mattos,
tradition says, the rival armies had encamped.
{54b} Except for the Gaelic “larach,” I know no word in any language
which exactly corresponds to “tapera,” as indicating the foundations of a
house grassed over.
{56a} Called _Superior de las misiones_.
{56b} Feliz de Azara, _Description y Historia del Paraguay_.
{56c} Es menester convenir, en que aunque los padres manda ban alli en
todo, usaron de su autoridad con una suavidad y moderacion que no puede
menos de admirarse.—Azara, _Historia del Paraguay_, Tom. 1, p. 282:
Madrid 1847.
{60a} Piptadenia communis.
{60b} Acacia maleolens.
{60c} Vitex Taruma.
{60d} Genipa Americana.
{62} “Estero” is the word used in Paraguay for a marsh. These marshes
are generally hard at the bottom, so that you splash through them for
leagues without danger, though the water is often up to the horse’s
girths.
{63a} Alazan tostado antes muerto que cansado. The Arabs think highly
of the dark chestnut. See the Emir Abdul Kader on Horsemanship.
{63b} The Yatai is a dwarf palm. It is the Cocos Yatais of botanists.
{63c} Cattle-farm.
{69} Cocos Australis.
{78} Guazu is big, in Guarani.
{131} It had a chorus reflecting upon convent discipline:
“For though the convent rule was strict and tight,
She had her exits and her entrances by night.”
{170a} “Medias hasta la berija
Con cada ojo como un charco,
Y cada ceja era un arco
Para correr la sortija.”
{170b} “En un overo rosao, fletel lindo y parejito,
Cayo al bajo al trotecito, y lindamente sentao.
Un paisano del Bragao, de apelativo Laguna,
Mozo ginetazo ahijuna, como creo que no hay otro
Capaz a llevar un potro a sofrenarlo en la luna.”