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That year it accidentally
happened the shipwreck of a boat, which with enormous efforts was
able to save and fulfilling the promise, one of the tugboats got
ready and they embarked with Mr. Lussich, Samuel Blixen, Arturo
Brizuela and others, at that time prestigious editors of main
newspapers of Montevideo.
The excursion could not be more pleasant; the attractive river
offered manifold, being able to be appreciating the Uruguayan
coast, so wavy, so windy, where the waves arrived to the sands or
strike strongly on rocks to transform itself into foam.
 The fishing was, during the trip, another great
attractiveness, but not as much as the ingenious bright and
flamboyant verba of Don Antonio and Blixen. After several hours
of slow sailing they arrived to Punta del Este, whose natural
enchantments already were known although neither the railroad nor
the roads made it accessible to the tourism, then starting.
Still she was desert, the one that is today one of the most
concurred summer resorts of the Rio de la Plata. Their counted
houses had their straw or zinc ceiling; its cooked mud walls,
their earth floor. There was Don Pedro Risso, soul to mater of
the place, that later offered lodging them inviting them to eat a
lamb in Punta Ballena. They acceded tasteful and the stroll was
prepared.
When arriving at the indicated place it attracted the
grandiosidad of grottos, the sea, the mountain ranges and the
sands. Samuel Blixen, before the contemplation of as much wonder
could not less than to exclaim: "This is a revelation...",
whereas Mr. Lussich talked back to him with studied skepticism:
"Then to me it seems to me not much", explaining the reasons to
him that it had to consider it thus and treating about not giving
more importance to everything what they saw astonished. Then
Blixen, somewhat made cross, said to him: "it is known that you
are not artist". One changed of subject. One lunched gladly.
Risso, always so communicative, told that they were going away to
sell those earth and those rocks, that were several interested,
he among others, to which said Mr. Lussich: "I would not give nor
céntimo by everything". They returned to Punta del Este.
 Don Antonio Lussich found out the name of the then
owner of Punta Ballena, pretended an ailment that could not
dissipate being in Punta del Este and announced his hasty trip to
Montevideo, to return days later. Naturally that Samuel Blixen
and his colleagues of journalism insisted on accompanying to him
but it promised to them formally to return immediately
recommending them in special form to Mr. Risso.
"the Hurricane" put to sea. It arrived Mr. Lussich at Montevideo
and established the purchase of that property. It offered few
thousands of pesos by these sterile and apparently little
propitious earth for any industry or practical application. The
supply was discussed and had to be increased and finally it took
shape. After several days, it returned "the Hurricane" to Punta
del Este and returned all to Montevideo.
It had not spent one week when Mr. Lussich called by telephone to
Samuel Blixen and radiating of joy he announced that he finished
to him buying Punta Ballena, signing the writing that extended
Don Manuel Alonso. It is to imagine the surprise of that to that
Mr. Lussich, indeed, had discussed respect to him to the
enchantments of these places, in the trip that we left narrated
before. So it is, in broad strokes, the process of the purchase
of this possession on the part of Mr. Lussich.
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