Note 22 — Chapter IV · THE CAT FAMILY—THE JAGUAR, THE SMALLER WILD CATS, THE DOMESTIC CAT.
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A weapon used by the Gauchos, and consisting of three cords, knotted together at one end, and having each a ball or stone attached to the other. The smallest of these is held in the hand, and the Gaucho “whirls the other two round and round his head, then taking aim, sends them like chain shot rushing through the air.”