Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America.

Date:
[between 1870 and 1879?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wonderful adventures : a series of narratives of personal experiences among the native tribes of America. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tliem are good songsters. At 4 50 p.m. we arrived at our destination, where we found a good, large, and substantial station, with waiting and refreshment rooms. In the latter, dinner was laid ready for all those passengers who \vished it before again starting on their journey. After making a good dinner at the station, we hired a cart and sent our luggage fonvard to the only fo7ida (inn) in the place, whilst we walked thither, for the purpose of getting a better view of the surrounding scenery, the station being about one mile from the centre of the town. Upon leaving the station the road passes through land which has the appearance of a large English park; in fact, so much so, that I once caught myself looking for some evidence of a mansion bet^veen the trees. We passed about three-fourths of a mile of this scenerj’-, and then arrived at the banks of the Rio Tercero (Third River), a ver} rapid stream, rising in the Cordilleras near Cordova, and joining the Rio Parana about half way beUveen Rosario and the city of Parana. In summer this stream is very much swollen from the snow melting in the Cordilleras. After some time spent in viewing the scenery from the river-banks, we paid a small toll, and passed over a good strong English-made iron girder bridge, about eighty yards long, recently erected to take the place of a dangerous ford close to this spot, where many bullock-carts have been carried away and lives lost when the water has been high. After crossing tlie bridge we found ourselves in the tovm of Fraile Muerto. This was formerly an Indian village, and derived its present name, Fraile Muerto (literally, “ Dead Friar”), from the fact of the Indians having killed a Jesuit priest sent there by the early Spaniards to convert them. The Spaniards, as they grew strong in numbers, advanced farther into tire
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