This is the same man whose attack on an estancia at the Rio Negro I have described.

He was a renegade half-caste Spaniard, who collected a great body of Indians together and established himself by a stream in the Pampas, which place none of the forces sent after him could ever discover.

From this point he used to sally forth, and crossing the Cordillera by passes hitherto unattempted, he ravaged the farm-houses and drove the cattle to his secret rendezvous.
Pincheira was a capital horseman, and he made all around him equally good, for he invariably shot any one who hesitated to follow him.

It was against this man, and other wandering Indian tribes, that Rosas waged the war of extermination.
SEPTEMBER 13, 1834.
(PLATE 64.

CORDILLERAS FROM SANTIAGO DE CHILE.) We left the baths of Cauquenes, and, rejoining the main road, slept at the Rio Claro.