The  musical  talent  of  the  latter  astonished  me,  for  I  understood
the  senora  to  say  that  these  ladies  had  been  educated  in  Tucuman.
Their  instrumentation  was  such  as  is  rarely  heard  in  the  private
circles  of  the  United  States ;  and  the  piano,  which  had  been  trans-
ported some  nine  hundred  miles  or  more  by  ox-wagons,  was  in
admirable  condition.
