I Trust They May Be
Caught, For We Have Too Many Of That Class At Liberty Already.
* * *
* It is estimated that over 100,000 rounds of ammunition were fired
in the two days.
* * * The insurgents fed on horse-meat and beef, the
former being obtained by killing the horses belonging to the police,
the latter from the various dairies, from which the cows were
seized."
In 1911 the two largest Dreadnoughts of the world, the Rivadavia
and the Moreno, were launched for the Argentine Government. These
two battleships are half as powerful again as the largest British
Dreadnought.
CHAPTER III.
THE CRIOLLO VILLAGE.
The different centres of trade and commerce in the Argentine can
easily be reached by train or river steamer. Rosario, with its
140,000 inhabitants, in the north; Bahia Blanca, where there is the
largest wheat elevator in the world, in the south, and Mendoza, at
the foot of the Andes, several times destroyed by earthquake, five
hundred miles west - all these are more or less like the capital.
To arrive at an isolated village of the interior the traveller must
be content to ride, as I did, on horseback, or be willing to jolt
along for weeks in a wagon without springs. These carts are drawn by
eight, ten, or more bullocks, as the weight warrants, and are
provided with two very strong wheels, without tires, and often
standing eight and ten feet high. The patient animals, by means of a
yoke fastened to their horns with raw-hide, draw these carts through
long prairie grass or sinking morass, through swollen rivers or
oozing mud, over which malaria hangs in visible forms.
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