14 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA 



Gallegos to take ship for Punta Arenas, the only port in Patagonia 

 where a steamer calls regularly. I left Patagonia in June 1901. 

 I compute that the whole distance covered by the journeyings of 

 the expedition cannot have fallen short of 2000 miles. 



Of the zoology of Patagonia little is known. Of the fauna and 

 tlora of the Cordillera of the southern central part it is not too 

 much to say that practically nothing is known. Patagonia thus 

 offers one of the most interesting fields in the world to the traveller 

 and naturalist. 



With these preliminary remarks, I will beg the reader to 

 embark with me upon the Argentine National transport the 

 Priinero de Mayo, bound from the port of Buenos Aires for the 

 south. 



