[20] A redomon is a half-tamed horse.[26] Hydrochoerus capybara.[32] The Gauchos often lay a deer-skin on their saddles, and wear boots made of deer-skin, alleging that serpents are afraid to touch them.[46] Accustomed pasture.[51] The Brazilians call the tapir “O gran besta.” The Guarani word is Mborebi.[52] Potrero is a fenced pasture, from “potro,” a colt.[54a] “Matto” is a wood in Portuguese, and at these two Mattos, tradition says, the rival armies had encamped.[54b] Except for the Gaelic “larach,” I know no word in any language which exactly corresponds to “tapera,” as indicating the foundations of a house grassed over.[56a] Called Superior de las misiones.[56b] Feliz de Azara, Description y Historia del Paraguay.[56c] Es menester convenir, en que aunque los padres manda ban alli en todo, usaron de su autoridad con una suavidad y moderacion que no puede menos de admirarse.—Azara, Historia del Paraguay, Tom. 1, p. 282: Madrid 1847.[60a] Piptadenia communis.[60b] Acacia maleolens.[60c] Vitex Taruma.[60d] Genipa Americana.[62] “Estero” is the word used in Paraguay for a marsh. These marshes are generally hard at the bottom, so that you splash through them for leagues without danger, though the water is often up to the horse’s girths.[63a] Alazan tostado antes muerto que cansado. The Arabs think highly of the dark chestnut. See the Emir Abdul Kader on Horsemanship.[63b] The Yatai is a dwarf palm. It is the Cocos Yatais of botanists.[63c] Cattle-farm.[69] Cocos Australis.[78] Guazu is big, in Guarani.[131] It had a chorus reflecting upon convent discipline:

“For though the convent rule was strict and tight,
She had her exits and her entrances by night.”

[170a] “Medias hasta la berija
Con cada ojo como un charco,
Y cada ceja era un arco
Para correr la sortija.”[170b] “En un overo rosao, fletel lindo y parejito,
Cayo al bajo al trotecito, y lindamente sentao.
Un paisano del Bragao, de apelativo Laguna,
Mozo ginetazo ahijuna, como creo que no hay otro
Capaz a llevar un potro a sofrenarlo en la luna.”