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in use — exactly as sometimes it is wholly im- 

 possible to divine what a particular specimen of 

 savage pictorial art indicates unless the savage 

 is there to explain it to his civilized brother. 



Among the signs of human occupation Doc- 

 tor Moreno found, well preserved in the cold 

 cave, not only the almost fresh bones, but even 

 pieces of the skin, of certain extinct animals. 

 Among the species whose bones were found 

 were the macrauchenia, tiger, horse, and my- 

 lodon. When Doctor Moreno said tiger, I 

 asked if he did not mean jaguar; but he said 

 no, that he meant a huge cat like an Old World 

 lion or tiger; I do not know with what modern 

 feline its affinities were closest. The discovery 

 of the comparatively fresh remains of the horse 

 gave rise in some quarters to the belief that it 

 was possible this species of horse survived to 

 the day the Spaniards came to the Argentine 

 and was partly ancestral to the modern Argen- 

 tine horse; but the supposition is untenable, for 

 the horse in question represents a very archaic 

 and peculiar type, with speciaUzed legs and an 

 extraordinary skull, and could not possibly 

 have had anything to do with the production 

 of the wild, or rather feral, horses of the pam- 

 pas and the Patagonian plains. Of the my- 

 lodon Doctor Moreno found not only com- 



