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The harvest drew to a close, in the great Estancia [ ] Argentina called "the national." The men, who came from all sides to make the harvest, avoided piling up in the workers ' houses and in the dependencies where the agricultural machinery and the dry alfalfa bales were kept; They preferred to sleep in the open air and have to pillow the bag which contained all their earthly goods and which had accompanied them everywhere in their incessant wanderings. There were men from almost every country in Europe. Some, eternal vagabonds, had started to run the whole world to satisfy their thirst for adventures, and they were only temporarily in the Argentine pampas ? a few months, not more ? before transporting their worried existence in Australia or cape of Good Hope. The others, simple peasants, Spaniards or Italians, had crossed the Atlantic, attracted by the astonishing novelty of earning six pesos [ ] per day for the same work which, in their country, was paid a few cents.