MYLODONS LIVING IN THE CAVE 



that the Indians kept the Mylodons alive in the 

 cavern and fed them with hay brought in from 

 the outside. Specimens of these objects and 

 of others to be mentioned below are now in the 



Fig. 128. ^Photograph of a " barrel-fuU of bones " obtained 

 by prospectors from the cave of Ultima Speranza, three 

 years after the first finds, and offered for sale to the 

 Natural History Museum. Unfortunately it was not 

 possible to send a reply to the owners in time, and the 

 collection was dispersed. Skulls, jaws, and other bones of 

 Mylodon are to be seen as well as a large skull of a jaguar, 

 and bones and teeth of horses. 



Natural History Museum, and some idea of their 

 number and variety may be formed from the 

 photographs reproduced in Figs. 126 to 131. 

 Besides the remains of the Mylodons and of 

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