[3] _Encomienda_ is the Spanish name for the concession, granted by the crown during the Spanish Colonial period, of a certain number of native Indians, to a Spanish conqueror for purposes of service. The _Encomendero_ was the recipient of such a concession from the crown. [4] _Mita._ Spanish term for the distribution by lot of the native Indians for purposes of public work. [5] _Yanaconazgo._ Spanish term for that peculiar kind of land tenantship by which the tenant has no title to the land, but receives a proportion of the product of his labors upon the land. [6] The cowboy of the Argentine Pampas.