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DOI article:Cunninghame Graham, R. B.: Bopicua
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HE great corral at
Bopicua was full of
horses.Greys,browns,
bays, blacks, duns,
chestnuts, roans (both
blue and red), skew-
balds and piebalds,
with claybanks, cali-
cos, buckskins and a
hundred shades and markings,unknown in Europe,
but each with its proper name in Uruguay and
Argentina, jostled each other, forming a kaleido-
scopic mass.
Athick dust rose from the corral and hung
above their heads. Sometimes the horses
stood all huddled up, gazing with wide
distended eyes and nostrils towards a group of
men that lounged about the gate. At other times
that panic fear that seizes upon horses when they
are crushed together in large quantities, set them
a galloping. Through the dust-cloud their foot-
falls sounded mufRed, and they themselves ap-
peared like phantoms in a mist. When they had
circled round a little, they stopped and those out-
side the throng, craning their heads down nearly
to the ground, snorted, and then ran back, arching
their necks andcarrying their tails like flags. Out-
side the great corral was set Parodis’ camp, below
some China trees, and formed of corrugated iron
and hides, set on short uprights, so that the hides
and iron almost came down upon the ground, in
gipsy fashion. Upon the branches of the trees
were hung saddles, bridles, halters, hobbles, lazos
and boleadoras, and underneath were spread out
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Bopicua was full of
horses.Greys,browns,
bays, blacks, duns,
chestnuts, roans (both
blue and red), skew-
balds and piebalds,
with claybanks, cali-
cos, buckskins and a
hundred shades and markings,unknown in Europe,
but each with its proper name in Uruguay and
Argentina, jostled each other, forming a kaleido-
scopic mass.
Athick dust rose from the corral and hung
above their heads. Sometimes the horses
stood all huddled up, gazing with wide
distended eyes and nostrils towards a group of
men that lounged about the gate. At other times
that panic fear that seizes upon horses when they
are crushed together in large quantities, set them
a galloping. Through the dust-cloud their foot-
falls sounded mufRed, and they themselves ap-
peared like phantoms in a mist. When they had
circled round a little, they stopped and those out-
side the throng, craning their heads down nearly
to the ground, snorted, and then ran back, arching
their necks andcarrying their tails like flags. Out-
side the great corral was set Parodis’ camp, below
some China trees, and formed of corrugated iron
and hides, set on short uprights, so that the hides
and iron almost came down upon the ground, in
gipsy fashion. Upon the branches of the trees
were hung saddles, bridles, halters, hobbles, lazos
and boleadoras, and underneath were spread out
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