human
Come, friend Paganel, Thalcave and I can scarcely succeed in understanding each other.
gpt
Thalcave is astonished at a circumstance that is really strange.
human
What?
gpt
At meeting neither Indians, nor any traces of them, on these plains, which are usually furrowed with their trails, whether they are driving home the cattle stolen from the ranchos, or going to the Andes to sell their zorillo carpets and whips of braided leather.
human
And to what does Thalcave attribute this abandonment?
gpt
He cannot tell; he is astonished. That is all.
human
But what Indians did he expect to find in this part of the Pampas?
gpt
The very ones who have had foreign prisoners; those natives who are commanded by the caziques Calfoucoura, Catriel, and Yanchetruz.
human
Who are these caziques?