TABLE OF CONTENTS XIII 



Dinosaur bones and Alpine plants on high bluffs south of Mayer Basin : Numerous glaciers : 

 Searching the Dinosaur beds for mammalian remains : Life about and in the forests : The 

 gray-banded woodpecker ; Habits of the little green parrakeet : Avian life in the depths of 

 the forest : Grebe in the small mountain lakes : Fearlessness exhibited by the deer of this 

 region : The barking bird : Bald Mountain : Glaciers in Mayer Basin : Outskirts of the 

 Andean forests : A trip to the Glaciers : Characters of the forests 1 29 



CHAPTER IX. 



Death of Governor Mayer : Voyage to Tierra del Fuego : Forests of Villarino Bay : 

 Beagle Channel : Ushuaia : Lapataia : Wreck of the " Esmeralda " : St. John's : Giant 

 Kelp: Return to Buenos Aires : Sail for New York : Arrival at Princeton. . . 149 



CHAPTER X. 



Start on second expedition : Sail on Grace I jne steamer " Cacique " direct to Sandy 

 Point : Arrive at Sandy Point : Encamped in the forests on the Rio de las Minas adjacent 

 to Sandy Point : Coal Mines at Sandy Point : Otway Water : Start North : Visit Tehuelche 

 village : North Gallegos : Santa Cruz : Start for the interior : Stuck fast in the Rio Chico : 

 We leave the Rio Chico near the Andes and explore the country to the northward : Mt 

 Belgrano : Over the high plateaus : Spring Creek : Swan Lake : Discovery of Lake Pueyrre- 

 don : Arroyo Gio : Rio Blanco : White Lake : Evidences of extensive ice action in the region 

 lying east of Lake Pueyrredon : Abundance of both vertebrate and invertebrate fossils : Birth 

 of the southern Andes : Caught in a blinding snow storm on the mountain : The valley lying 

 east of Lake Gio : In the basalt canons southeast of Lake Buenos Aires. . . . -157 



CHAPTER XI. 



Start on our return to the coast : Stricken with rheumatism : Receive our first news of 

 the Spanish-American war, July 26, 1898 : Arrival at Santa Cruz : Mr. Colburn decides to 

 return home and awaits steamer at Santa Cruz : I go to Gallegos on horseback : Caught in 

 a blizzard : Across the ice-covered pampas : Reach the estancia of Mr. Halliday at North 

 Gallegos : Cross the river to the Port of Gallegos : My rheumatism improves slowly because 

 of insufficient comforts and I decide to return home : Embark for Sandy Point in the "Joseph 

 F. Lovart " of the New York Pilot Fleet : An uneventful voyage of forty-seven days from 

 Sandy Point to New York in the steamship " Maori " : Arrive home much benefited by my 

 long voyage through the Tropics : Arrange for my third and last trip to Patagonia. . -187 



CHAPTER XII. 



Start on third expedition : Reach Sandy Point : Go by steamer to San Julian : Revisit 

 Lake Pueyrredon : Discovery of new and highly fossiliferous Cretaceous deposits : Deep 

 depression in the plains east of Mt. Belgrano : A snow storm : Revisit Mayer Basin : Return 

 to Santa Cruz : Make important collections of invertebrate fossils at mouth of Santa Cruz 

 River : Return to San Julian : Gallegos : The wreck of the Villarino : Buenos Aires : 

 Up the Paraguay River to Asuncion : Fossil bones at Entre Rios : Asuncion : The 

 interior of Paraguay : Return to Buenos Aires : Rio de Janeiro : New York : Different 

 effects exerted on the minds of Darwin and Hudson by the plains of Patagonia : Conclusion. 195 



