"Pamperos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de Tucuman and Mendoza areas in the Andes subject to earthquakes; pamperos are violent windstorms that can strike the pampas and northeast; ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... others, and so the captain seemed to think, for although he was anxious to get round Cape Horn we were always under snug canvas at night, and during the day a bright look-out was kept, lest one of those sudden squalls called Pamperos might come off the land and whip the masts out of the ship, or lay her on her beam-ends, as frequently happens when the hands are not ready to shorten sail. We, however, got to the southward of the Falkland ...
— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston
... are, however, often caught in these pamperos, and driven into the bush, or upset, when the swift current carries down the best of swimmers ...
— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston |
