Alpargatas, shoes made of canvas with
jute or hemp soles.
Asado, roast meat. In the camp cooked
on a spit over the fire.
Asador, the spit on which meat is roasted.
Asulejo, a blue-eyed, grey and white horse.
Bandurria, an ibis.
Barranca, cliff-like banks of river or lagoon.
Bayo, a cream-coloured dun horse.
Blanco, white; a white horse or cow.
Bocado, a thong of raw hide passed twice
round the lower jaw of a young horse
as a bit.
Bolas, Boleadores, three balls of stone
covered with raw hide and attached
to one another by twisted thongs of
raw hide; used for catching wild
animals.
Boliche, a small drinking-store.
Bombilla, a metal tube for sucking the tea
from the maté cup.
Bozal, a halter.
Cabresto, a leading rein always attached to
the bozal for tying up the horse; from
the Spanish word cabestro.
Cacique, an Indian chief or leader.
Cañadon, a dale or dip of low land between
stretches of high land.
Capa, a cape or cloak.
Carancho, the large, eagle-like carrion
hawk (Polyborus tharus).
Carguero, a pack-horse or mule.
Carpa, a tent, or shelter of a movable
kind.
Casa, a house, even if only a mud hut.
Cebruno, a dark mouse-coloured horse
with a reddish tinge.
Chico, little.
Chimango, a harrier-like carrion hawk
(Milvago Chimango).
China, Indian woman; also a native Criska
woman.
Chiripá, a loin-cloth the size of a poncho,
and worn so as to form loose, baggy
trousers.
Cinch, English spelling of "Cincha," the
raw-hide girth used with native saddles.
Colorado, red; a bay horse.
Cordillera, the chain of mountains called
the Andes.
Cruzado, a horse having crossed white
feet—i.e., one fore-foot white and one
hind-foot of opposite sides; always
expected to be good horses.
Estancia, a farm in Argentina.
Estanciero, a stock-farmer in Argentina.
Gateado, a yellow dun horse with a black
stripe down the back.
Gaucho, the Argentine cowboy.
Horqueta, a fork; the separation of two
streams forming a fork; name of a
horse with a forked cutting in the ear.
Macho, a male animal; especially a mule.
Madrina, the bell-mare followed by all the
horses or mules of a tropilla.
Manada, a herd of mares.
Manea, hobbles for a horse made of raw
hide generally.
Mañero, a cunning, tricky horse or person.
Martineta, the "large partridge" (Calo
dromas elegans).
Maté, the small gourd in which the Yerba
tea is made; also the tea itself.
Moro, a dark blue roan horse.
Mula, female mule.
Muy limpio, literally "very clean."
Oscuro, a dark or black horse.
Overo, a spotted or splashed horse.
Palenque, posts or rails put up for tying-up
horses.
Pampa, the great plains of South America.
Pampero, the south-west wind, often a
hurricane in South America, blowing
across the Pampas.
Pangaré, a bay horse, with the peculiar
mule-like colouring of the nozzle.
Pantano, a mud hole; a sticky muddy
place.
Peon, a working man or porter.
Picaso, a black horse with white feet and
face.
Plaza, open square in a town.
Poncho, the rug or shawl, with a hole in
middle, to slip over the head.
Potro, a colt or wild horse.
Puchero, mutton or beef boiled with rice,
and vegetables when there are any.
Rincon, a corner.
Rosado, a light strawberry roan horse.
Rosillo, a red-roan horse.
Soga, a cord or strip of hide.
Toldo, an awning; the Indian tent of raw
hides.
Tordillo, a grey horse.
Tostado, a dark chestnut horse.
Travesia, a desert.
Tropilla, the troop of horses or mules
driven in front of travellers in South
America.
Vaqueano, a guide.
Vega, a valley.
Yerba, the Paraguayan tea, universal in Argentina.