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Out on the Pampas
G. A. Henty
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‘Oh, it’s those dreadful mosquitoes; there were millions on board the steamer last night I really thought we should have been eaten up. Didn’t you, mamma?’
‘Well, my dear, I thought that they would perhaps- 72 - leave something of us till morning, but I felt almost inclined to go mad and jump overboard. It was a dreadful night I do hope they are not so bad here, Frank?’
‘No, Clara, they are nothing like so bad as they were last night; but still, as we are so close to the river, they will, no doubt, be troublesome, and I question whether the beds at the hotel have mosquito curtains; but if you take my advice, and all sleep with the sheet over your heads, you will manage to do pretty well. It is better to be hot than to be bitten all over.’
In spite, however, of the expedient of the sheets, all the party passed a bad night, and were quite ready to get . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Another fantastic adventure described in the totally enjoyable manner. G. A. Henty is unbelievable
I don't have much to say except this story is truly a literal gem
A good story of a family that emigrated to Argentina in the 1880s.
This is the shortest GA Henty I think I've read and it was the least boring, but I wouldn't start your GA Henty journey here.
A good story and a fair description on homesteading in Argentina.
A fair warning: Henry can be quite racist and not politically correct by today's standards. I read Henty with the understanding that he is a 19th century British Tory Imperialist. He represents the Victorian point of view and in fact,
Tales of derring-do on the Argentinian pampas from the second half of the 1800s.
Out on the Pampas is Victorian literature at its most jingoistic.
The Hardy family leave England to make their fortune on the Pampas of Argentine as there isn't enough room left in England. The family work hard and all their work seems to be successful. Cotton is abandoned as a crop, not through lac