Travels in Bolivia With a Tour Across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres C volume V
Travels in Bolivia With a Tour Across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres C volume V
L Hugh De Bonelli
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The 'padre was a regular sportsman and was provided with a gun, but he was put out of conceit of it, and fell desperately in love with my ammunition and arms, on com- paring them with his own. I appeared to understand his hints only so far as I thought prudent, but made him a present of some pow- der, caps, and some patent cartridges. One or two flying shots which I made at some doves that flew over the house astonished every- body, and stamped me in their eyes as a first-rate hand. The natives... seldom attempt a flying shot, but secure their game in trees or on the ground. During my stay I witnessed a scene which, even in this lawless and uncivilized country, proved the superiority of moral over physical force. A strong, muscular- looking Gaucho came to the porch of the Colonel's house, hat in hand, in the greatest afiliction, and crying like a child. He stated that a certain man had beguiled away his wife, and held her in some place of conceal- 216 TRAVELS IN BOLIVIA. ment, which he had sought for in vain, and was broken-hearted at his want of success.
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