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Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ccoutrements consisted of rifles, with sword-bayonets, knap-sacks, blankets, and tin plates. The officers wore a neat uni-form of dark cloth, similar to that used by the engineers ofthe British army. The regimental colors were of fine silk,and very pretty. The mounted officers had beautiful horses,and splendid saddles with silver stirrups. The rank andfile were rather undersized, and a more wild, brutal, andsavage-looking set of men I have rarely seen. The explana-tion is that the Uruguayan army is very largely recruitedfrom the prisons and penitentiaries, and that under certainconditions, after having passed a specified length of time injail, a criminal is allowed to serve out in the army the re-mainder of his term. It may be that the discipline of thearmy is quite as wholesome as that of the jail, but it seemsto me a much lighter form of punishment, inasmuch as therestriction is neither solitary nor close, and the odium ofbeing branded as a criminal among criminals is quite omitted.
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Situation of the Argentine Republic in South America. ^> CHAPTER XVIII. THE METROPOLIS OF THE RIVER PLATE. At six oclock in the evening I left Montevideo for Bue-nos Ayres, one hundred and twenty-five miles distant, in asteamer (of some five hundred-odd tons burden) of a linewhich dispatches a boat every day of the week, save Fridayand Saturday. It is a double-deck, side-wheel, two-pipe ves-sel, and seems intended to carry only passengers and theirpersonal baggage. We were about fifty, representing a fifthas many nationalities. The dinner was most elaborate—atleast a dozen courses, with three kinds of wine. Living inMontevideo is not only cheap but good. At the hotel atwhich I stayed, one of the best though not the largest in thecity, I paid two dollars and a half per day, and this chargeincluded two kinds of wine, Spanish and French. Therooms were well furnished and admirably kept, the table wasbounteously supplied, and the cooking was either French orItalian, there being ordina

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