ABSTRACT
Sefiol; M. is reputed to possess 40,000 acres of land. He told me that he had sold last fall 1800 young colts at six dollars per head. He owns several thousand sheep; as to cattle, he could not tell till after the rodeo how many there were. The rodeo is the annual gathering of cattle, when the owners in fI large district drive all the stock into one great plain, and each with his vac-
queros, picks out his own cows, withdraws them into a separate herd, brands the calves which innocently follow their mothers, and then turns the whole mass adrift again, or in some cases drives them home to his own land.
