[1] "Long live the well-beloved General Rosas! Long live the liberator! Long live the federals! Death to the unitarian savages! Slay them! Slay them!"

[2] These words will hardly bear translation Their general meaning is this: Why do you go and return, return and go; if others go less far, they gain more by it.

[3] "O precious Liberty! One cannot compare you to gold nor to the greatest riches in the spacious world."

[4] "More rich and more cherished than the most precious treasure."

[5] Child of the country; a very common expression in South America.


[CHAPTER XVII.]

A DELICATE FEDERAL ATTENTION.


We will run before the corporal, in order to explain to the reader what had happened in the rancho.