CONTENTS. Xi 



CHAPTER VI. 



Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Transportal of 

 pebbles — Tliird posta — Driving horses — Bolas — Partridges and foxes — 

 Features of country — Long-legged plover — Teru-tero — Hailstorm — 

 Natural enclosures in Sierra Tapalguen — Flesh of puma — Meat diet — 

 Guardia del Monte — Effects of cattle on the vegetation — Cardoon — 

 Buenos Ayres — ^Corral where animals are slaughtered . . 124 



CHAPTER VII. 



Excursion to St. Fe— Thistle beds— Habits and range of Bizcacha— Little 

 owl — Saline streams — Level plains — Mastodon — St. Fe — Change in 

 landscape — Geology — Tooth of extinct horse — Range of fossil quadru- 

 peds — Pampas full of remains — Effects of great droughts — Droughts 

 periodical — Parana — Habits of Jaguar — Scissor-beak — Kingfisher, 

 parrot, and scissor-tail — Revolution — Buenos Ayres — State of govern- 

 ment ...... 142 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Monte Video — Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento — Horses, swimming 

 — Value of an Estancia — Cattle, how counted — Geology — Great thistle- 

 beds — Rio Negro — Perforated pebbles — Shepherd dogs — Horses broken 

 in, Gauchos riding, feats with lazo — Toxodon — Armadillo-like gigantic 

 covering — Great tail — Return to Monte Video — Character of inha- 

 bitants ...... 167 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Rio Plata — Flocks of butterflies — Beetles alive in the sea — Aeronaut 

 spiders — Pelagic animals — Phosphorescence of sea — Port Desire — 

 Spanish settlements — Zoology — Guanaco — Excursion to head of har- 

 bour — Indian grave — Port St. Julian — Geology of Patagonia, succes- 

 sive terraces, transport of pebbles — Fossil gigantic llama — Types of 

 organization constant — Change in zoology of America — Causes of ex- 

 tinction ...... 183 



CHAPTER X. 



Santa Cruz — Expedition up river — Indians — Character of Patagonia — 

 Basaltic platform — Immense streams of lava — Non-transport of blocks 

 by river — Excavation of valley — Condor, range and habits — Cordil- 

 lera — Erratic boulders of great size — Indian relics— Return to the 

 ship . . . . . .213 



CHAPTER XI. 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — Interview with sa- 

 vages — Scenery of the forests— Sir J. Banks's hill — Cape Horn — Wig- 

 wam Cove — Miserable condition of savages — Beagle channel — Fuegians 

 — Ponsonby Sound — Equality of condition among the natives — Bifurca- 

 tion of the Beagle channel — Glaciers — Return to ship • 227 



