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as I walked on deeper into it. I saw two liucniul bucks, one accom- 

 panied by two, the other by three does ; I also saw some guanacos. 

 The Giant's Glacier, which crosses the head of Lake Ar^rentino as 



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I.AKE PEAKSt.iN 



far as the peninsula on which we camped, ran parallel behind the 

 cliffs of the western shore, glimmering out palcK in ibc iiorih-west 

 ahead of me. Presently I passed over a stream, and later tojjping a 

 low bluff I found myself on the shores of a lake, the distant gleam of 

 whose waters Cattle and I had seen on the previous day. I was. of 

 course, very eager to take a photograph of it. but everything aroimd 

 was shrouded in mist, and I had with me only a binocular camera. 

 the mechanism of which did not jicrmit of long exposures. 



I must admit that I was disap|)()intcd with the lake whrn 

 I arrived at it, as I had expected a much larger piece of w.iicr. 

 The nearer shores were somewhat low and covered with bouKlers. 

 while upon the farther sides rose a semicircle of hills whose 

 escarpments fell in places abrii])il\ lo the water. Alxnit tin- in- 

 ferior spurs of a somewhat higlu-r mountain lo ihe norili a dense 



