My Year of Darwin 3/27/2014: Last reference to genocide, I hope

"St. Fe is a quiet little town, and is kept clean and in good order. The governor, Lopez, was a common soldier at the time of the revolution; but has now been seventeen years in power, This stability of government is owing to his tyrannical habits; for tyranny seems as yet better adapted to these countries than republicanism. The governor's favourite occupation is hunting Indians: a short time since he slaughtered forty-eight, and sold the children at the rate of three or four pounds apiece." -Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle  

I'm 25% into the Voyage and there's been several accounts of genocide - none more than General Rosas. But I'm tired and tired to these account. More pangolin! or any pangolin! Or cute puppies or wacky birds or 

A SUPER CUTE FAWN! 

My Year of Darwin 3/19/2014: Thou shall kill savages - all of them

"but how much more shocking is the unquestionable fact, that all the women who appear above twenty years old are massacred in cold blood? When I exclaimed that is appeared rather inhuman, he answered, "why, what can be done? they breed so!"  Every one here is fully convinced that this is the most just war, because it is against barbarians, Who would believe in this age that such atrocities could be committed in a Christian civilizes country? "

And so they were exterminated in Chile and Argentina. Mostly by General Rosas but also by tribes threatened by Rosas.  

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