Note 67 — ORIGINALIDAD Y CARACTERES ARGENTINOS El Rastreador—El Baquiano—El Gaucho Malo—El Cantor Domingo F. Sarmiento

A cowhide, fashioned so as to give it buoyancy, is often used in the pampas to cross streams. An improvised craft of this type is called a pelota, i.e., ball. Though the pelota is often mentioned and described by Argentine travelers and explorers, nowhere other than in this passage of Sarmiento have the editors read that they were towed by women. Cf. The Prairie, Chapter XXIV.