madera: wood

mal: bad

mando: command

mandó: he ordered

mano: hand

margen: margin, side of a river

marqués: marquis.

más: more

medida: measure

medio: half. Por medio: by means

mencioné: I mentioned

miseria: poverty

misiones: missions

mismas: the same

modo: way

montonera: improvised army, formed in this case recruiting indians. Other caudillos recruited gauchos. That explains in part why democratatic people like President Sarmiento, rejected so much gauchos, considering them only caudillos´tools.

morir: to die

mujeres: women