Tuesday, August 19, 2025

American Voyage to Buenos Aires, 1817-8 - gauchos, torros and Indians

 Salvete Omnes,

Gauchos, Malaspina expedition, Renet pinxit

a quick lope to Buenos Aires - H.M. Breckenridge was sent to Buenos Aires in 1817 (via the Portuguese colony of Brasil) - his observations were published in London, in 1820



Author made many quick observations  while visiting the capital, Buenos Aires - 

the pampas nomadic Indians:



the people of Buenos Aires


the 'estancias - large  ranchos- 


ox wagons and horse-mounted sellers of fruit and milk

the bull fights

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gauchos and horses/criollos 


Valete

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