Excerpt from Travel and Big Game I had originally intended staying some time in Buenos A yres, but I had enough of this city in a few days. Among other places I visited were the mataderos. Here a number of cattle are driven into an enclosure over which is a scaf folding on which men walk and pith each indi vidual beast behind the horns with a long knife; this goes on until they are all down, then the work of skinning commences. I will pass over the journey up to Rosario on a river steamer; also my temporary stay in the ...
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Excerpt from Travel and Big Game I had originally intended staying some time in Buenos A yres, but I had enough of this city in a few days. Among other places I visited were the mataderos. Here a number of cattle are driven into an enclosure over which is a scaf folding on which men walk and pith each indi vidual beast behind the horns with a long knife; this goes on until they are all down, then the work of skinning commences. I will pass over the journey up to Rosario on a river steamer; also my temporary stay in the City. Afterwards I whiled away some time by calling at one estancia or an other, and got considerable insight into the ways of the rancheros - lassooing and branding cattle, and horses, etc. I came out ostensibly to learn Sheep-farming at the estan cia Santa Kilda, Banda Orientale, but I never reached this place. I was too near the virgin forest to resist the temptation, and to this day the kind of life I started on then for the first time, has held the ascendancy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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