LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait of Author Frontispiece 



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At last, Patagonia! ....... 



Chafiar trees ........ 



Serpent with a Cross ....... 



Swallows congregating ....... 



An Indian burial-place ...... 



The river by moonlight ...... 



Snow at El Carmen ....... 



Black vulture ........ 



Cow and pigs ........ 



Major and the flamingo ...... 



Upland geese ........ 



Damian gives himself up ...... 



Damian's wife ........ 



Ctenomys magellanica ....... 



Calodromus elegans ....... 



Dolichotes patagonica ....... 



Calandria mocking-bird 



Cyphorhinus cantans ....... 



Gaucho with spectacles ...... 



Viewing a distant object ...... 



Magellanic eagle owl ....... 



The Plains of Patagonia 



Wakening at dawn ....... 



The evening primrose ....... 



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