Chapter XXIV

. The Pawnie is an Indian character in _The Prairie_, friend of the Trapper.

[67] 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 .

[68] =con la pelota... lazo=, _with the pelota towed by means of a rope seized between the teeth_.

[69] =El procedimiento para asar una cabeza de búfalo=. For reference V. _The Prairie_, Chapter IX . Sarmiento has evidently made a mistake here, meaning not the head but the hump of a buffalo.

[70] =En fin,...= In his _Voyage of the Beagle_,