126 HUNTING EXTINCT ANIMALS 



men has not yet been excavated. Its value is largely 

 speculative, and will depend mostly on the skill with which 

 it is collected, as is so largely the case with all these ancient 

 remains. However, this has led the people to try and 

 capitalize the finds which they may make. 



From here Stein went to the southeast into the San 

 Bernado hills, a very broken piece of country, made up 

 partly of volcanic lavas and partly of the Patagonian sand- 

 stones with their marine shells, with here and there ex- 

 posures of the reddish beds in which dinosaur bones are 

 found. On the tenth he reached a second member of the 

 Herzog family, and all the succeeding day was confined 

 to the house by the "terrific winds" which made riding 

 impossible. Though this was in the middle of January and 

 the hottest time of the year, all through the diary run 

 such entries as "night cold and windy, " or "night freezing." 

 In the valleys among these hills the grass was better than 

 near Sarmiento. 



On the night of the fourteenth Billy had worked up to the 

 northwest corner of Lake Musters and camped near the 

 shore at the foot of a headland known as Cabo Pastel, for 

 variety the weather being warm and the lake covered with 

 thousands of ducks and geese. After picketing out his 

 horse he rolled into his blanket, only to be awakened after 

 about an hour by the bellowing of an approaching wild 

 bull which seemed to threaten his horse especially. He got 

 up and by waving his coat and running and shouting at the 

 animal drove it off. A couple of hours later it came back 

 and this time was much harder to turn. The third time 

 the bull approached Billy was tempted to shoot at it, but 

 as it was dark and knowing the irresponsibility of a wounded 

 bull, he got ready to drive him out again or vacate the 

 camp hastily, when from the opposite direction he heard a 

 faint answering bellow, and realized that it was not him 

 or his horse the bull was after, but to get at an adversary. 



