SVENSKA EXPEDITIONEN TILL MAGELLANSLÄNDERNA. BD. II. NIO 7. 149 



ON SOME REMAINS OF 



"NEOMYLODON LISTAI" Ameghino 



BROUGHT HOME BY 



THE SWEDISH EXPEDITION TO TIERRA DEL FUEGO 1896 



BY 



Dr. EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



Vf hen Dr. 0. Nordenskjöld, during the Swedish Expedition 

 to Tierra del Fuego, one of tlie first days of April 1896 ar- 

 rived at Eberhardt, a place sitnated near Last Hope Inlet 

 (»Ultima Esperanza») 51° 35' S. lat,, 72° 38' W. long, in the 

 Territorio de Magallanes, Chile, he received Information about 

 a cave which was sitnated a few kilometres from the sea- 

 shore. This cave liad not long before his arrival been dis- 

 covered by some farm-labonrers and they had fomid on visit- 

 ing the cave a human skeleton which they, however, instantly 

 burned to drive away the spooks (!), I suppose. But another 

 find, pieces of thick, very strange-looking skin, they had 

 brought home to the farni. Dr. 0. Nordenskjöld having heard 

 this, visited the cave, »Cueva Eberhardt», the 4th of April 

 to make geological and ethnographical investigations. The 

 result of the first mentioned of these investigations has been 

 published in his paper entitled: »Über die posttertiären Ab- 

 lagerungen der Magellansländer». 1 In the paper mentioned 

 ]). (33 we find a description of the cave from which I abstract 

 the following: »Der Boden der Höhle ist eben, das Dach fällt 

 in dem natürlichen Fallwinkel der Schichten (etwa 30' gegen 

 SSW). Die Wände sind mit Kalkstalaktiten und mit einer 

 meistens aus Gyps bestehenden Kruste überzogen. Ihre 

 höchste Höhe beträgt etwa 30 m., die Länge 200 m. und die 



1 Svenska Expeditionen tili Magellansländerna Bd. I, N:o 2, Stock- 

 holm 1898. 



