The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

TOPOGEAPnY OF AEGEXTIXA. 443
They were encamped for some time in a village of wooden huts, while lands were
being apportioned out to them ; and here they soon showed what manner of
colonists they were going to be. Drinking, gambling, and horse-racing was the
order of the day. The capital they had brought with them took unto itself
wings; for let the gringo (European), however knowing in his own land, skin
his eyes ere he match himself on the turf with the simple gaucho of the pampas.
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" So things went on, and the natives smiled at the ways of the locos Ingkses
f'mad Englishmen'), won their money, acquired their mortgaged lauds, while
the colonists diminished woefully in number. Many of these gentlemen ultimately
were driven to take any menial work they could get ; some died of delirium
tremens, others self-despatched with their own revolvers ; the remainder settled
down, after the first wild burst was over, with diminished means to the business
they had come over to undertake. The prosperous little town of Frayle iluerto