s express passive contentment, but are utterly destitute of
vivacity and intelligence. Their feet are remarkably small. They have
their eyebrows and moustaches plucked so as to contain only a single
line of hairs. The women are of low size, and unattractive--using a
sort of pigment on their bodies, composed of animal blood and soot.

The sole covering of both sexes is a mantle made of huanacu skins--worn
with the hairy side in--which can be thrown off in a moment. Their
habitations are huts of skin, supported on poles sloping to the ground,
towards the direction from whence blows the strong wind or snow from
Cape Horn. They sleep, however, in fine weather,--like other tribes
further to the north,--on the uncovered ground.

Their great delight is smoking--from a pipe made of stone, fashioned
into the shape of a small bowl, in which a long tube is fixed. Each man
takes a pull at the pipe and sends it round, gulping in a huge quantity
of vapour, all the muscles of the body seeming in a fierce convulsion of
straining; and while his neighbour is apparently employed in an effort
to gulp down the whole apparatus, there issues from the nose and mouth
of the first smoker a cloud which quickly renders his face and all
around him invisible.

Like other tribes of the Pampas, they have become expert horsemen, and
with bolas capture huanacus and ostriches.

DEER OF THE PAMPAS.

Besides the huanacus, a deer of considerable size ranges in small herds
throughout the Pampas and northern Patagonia, and is very abundant. It
possesses an overpoweringly strong and offensive odour at some periods
of the year, which is perceptible at a great distance. Should the
Gauchos kill an animal when this is the case, they bury the flesh in the
earth, by which means the taint is removed, and it becomes eatable. A
person can easily approach a herd by crawling along the ground, when the
deer, out of curiosity, apparently, approach to reconnoitre him. They,
however, have learned to fear their enemy, man, when mounted on a horse
and armed with bolas; and as soon as they see a horseman, they
invariably take to flight.

NATA CATTLE.

Darwin mentions a remarkable breed of cows called the nata or niata.
The animal has a very short and broad forehead, with the nasal end
turned up, and the upper lip much drawn back. Its lower jaw projects
below the upper, and has a corresponding upward curve; hence its teeth
are always exposed. Its nostrils are