Cacti also form great thickets

Peach and apple trees are abundant in some districts. The native fauna includes the puma, the jaguar, the tapir, the llama, the alpaca, the vicuna, armadilos, the rhea or nandu, a species of ostrich, etc. The climate is agreeable and healthful, 97° being about the highest temperature experienced. The native Indians, few in number, give little trouble to white settlers, although some of the Gran Chaco tribes are warlike and have killed foreign travellers. Some tribes, still in a savage state, inhabit le known districts and live by hunting and fishing. The typical inhabitants of the pampas are the Gauchos, a race of half-breed cattle-rearers and horse breakers, almost continually in saddle, galloping the fs ee A. is divided into 14 provinces and 10 territories.