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they more than filled the land assigned to them, so a second 

 colony was started on the level stretch between lakes 

 Colhue-Huapi and Musters, and this was opened to settle- 

 ment without any national restrictions, being now occupied 

 by Boers, Welch, Spanish, Russians, etc. In this case 

 the land being considered better, each settler only obtained 

 a quarter of a league either near the lakes or along the 

 River Senguerr leading into Lake Musters. It is expected 

 that they will be able to irrigate this land. 



On the way to the town a night was spent with Mr. 

 Castro, "a good fellow, but can't speak English," with 

 whom next morning Billy rode over much of the country 

 south of the lake (Colhue-Huapi). Here they saw enor- 

 mous flocks of waterfowl, ducks, geese, and flamingoes, 

 which as they are not much hunted showed little fear. 

 Passing on from here to Sarmiento he met a Mr. Jones 

 (Welch like nearly everyone of that name in South Amer- 

 ica), who showed him his considerable collection of Indian 

 relics and fossil bones. About the localities where they 

 were found, he was, however, unwilling to give any informa- 

 tion. Next day Stein visited the public school, where, as 

 he could not make an address to the pupils in Spanish, he 

 stood as the subject of a talk by the master. It was notice- 

 able that in all these rural schools most if not all the 

 teachers were men. 



In the afternoon he went on, skirting along the south of 

 Lake Musters to the Herzog ranch occupied by a Russian 

 German, where Billy's knowledge of the Russian language 

 won him a hearty welcome. Here, again, there was a col- 

 lection of fossil bones, and again the owner was unwilling 

 to disclose the localities where they were found. It was 

 only in this section that we found this feeling about telling 

 us all about fossils; and it was probably due to the fact 

 that two or three years before there had been found near 

 Sarmiento the remains of a very large dinosaur, of which 

 the government had at once taken possession. The sped- 



