GLOSSARY

Alazan, a chestnut horse.

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.

Zaino, a brown horse.