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had had during our trip, but we had pampa going and knew 

 that Romberg's was at the end of the day's march; so we 

 pushed ahead as fast as possible, reaching the estancia 

 about four in the afternoon. Mr. Romberg was away 

 buying rams, but our welcome was no less cordial. Before 

 supper Turner photographed the Romberg twins, and also 

 the young guanaco illustrated opposite page 102. Then 

 after an early supper a second sdngerfest began, with Mrs. 

 Romberg and Turner as leading actors. 



In the morning we stopped for coffee at the house, not 

 getting away until eight, after which we covered the eight 

 leagues of sand and hills to Calleta Olivia, reaching the 

 little town in time for supper. Here we had to buy water 

 for the horses at ten cents a drink, but they were thirsty 

 enough so they got their money's worth. It is a town with 

 but one well in it and the water from that is only used for 

 horses, the people hauling their drinking water from four 

 miles out. 



It was Saturday morning as we pulled up the long hill 

 from Calleta, passing near the top one of the Boer freighters 

 who had started about an hour earlier. Soon after this we 

 came to a point where the road forked iiito three branches, 

 and here for some reason we took the wrong fork, and in 

 an hour or so brought up in a man's dooryard at the end 

 of the road. He told us we could strike the other trail by 

 going half a league across country to the south. Either his 

 unit of measure differed from ours or he had never tried 

 the crossing; for we went fully five miles across the worst 

 kinds of brush and up and down all sorts of bad hills before 

 we found our trail again. At noon we came to that German 

 place we had missed on the down journey. This time our 

 friend was vastly less cordial, and had developed a rheuma- 

 tism which prevented his leaving the house. However, he 

 pointed to the southeast to a place where he said we would 

 find water for our horses within half a mile. We tried 

 and failed to find the place. Coming back he pointed to 



