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become a place to be visited by those who are interested 

 in natural phenomena. 



It took us three days to get our specimens into camp 

 and packed, and to make a section across this exposure. 

 Then we had to shoe one of the horses. While doing this 

 we heard there was a man over on the Chico River who had 

 found a "bone." That was exactly what we most wanted ; 

 so on the morning of October lo, we put our boxes into the 

 wagon and hauled them into the port, leaving six in all 

 to be shipped to the College. We also took in every bit of 

 baggage we could do without, temporarily reducing our- 

 selves to the clothes we stood in and our beds; for we 

 planned in ten days to come back this way, and the pull 

 up on the pampa was reputed hard. Then we bought 

 provisions, the major part of which was 500 pounds of corn 

 for the horses, and a Spanish saddle or riccao for the Paddy 

 horse. All this was hauled out to the fork in the roads, 

 where it was made into a neat pile and topped with a rubber 

 coat arranged like a scarecrow to discourage any range 

 animals from investigating our cache. 



Crossing the bushes we found the boys had struck camp, 

 so after an early lunch we were on the road again. When 

 the stuff at the cache was put on, we found we had a good 

 sized load in spite of what we had left. We made a short 

 day's run, but were all ready for an early start in the 

 morning. About here the country was so broken that 

 the road twisted like a corkscrew to keep whatever it 

 gained in height. At noon we were just under the last 

 pitch of some 500 to 600 feet which led up on the plain. 

 As at this level there were likely to be springs, most of the 

 houses in this section were situated in the various ravines 

 at intervals of from five to ten miles from each other. 

 Wherever there is a spring there is usually from one to 

 five acres of boggy ground covered with good, though 

 coarse grass. 



From here the real pull began, for what was left of the 



