Argentine Patagonian And Chilian Sketches Microform With a Few Notes On Uru
Argentine Patagonian And Chilian Sketches Microform With a Few Notes On Uru
Charles Edmond Akers
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The water becomes very shallow some twenty miles from Yiedma. Crossing some of the bars it was only six to seven feet in depth, and is muddy and turbid, while the strength of the current is never less than five miles an hour, and often as great as seven. Owing to the number of snags and banks, navigation is impossible at night, and the steamer ties up to the bank shortly before dark. On the morning of the second day the town of Pringles was reached. I have called it a town for the sake of court...esy, but, in reality, it consists of about two hundred houses, built of sun-dried bricks, and in a very tumble-down condition. It dates back, however, to the year 1836, and I was shown two old-fashioned cannon that were used by Kosas in his expedition against the Indians. On the largest of these mud shanties was a grand hatchment with the National Arms upon it, over the doorway, and painted 112 THE RIO NEGRO. on it in large gold letters was " Municipalidad de Pringles. " Opposite this establish meat were the quarters of the gar- rison ; the said garrison consisting of two ragged-looking soldiers of one of the Infantry regiments.
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