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interesting race, the Tehuelche Indians, but I have abstained from 

 very lengthy appendices, for these would be of purely scientific 

 interest. 



It is my hope to be able to return to Patagonia and to go 

 further into the many interesting subjects to which my attention 

 was drawn. In any book that may result from this second journey, 

 I look forward to including lists of various zoological, palseonto- 

 logical, and botanical collections, all the materials for which have 

 not at the moment of writing arrived in England. 



I would very cordially acknowledge the unfailing help which 

 Dr. F. P. Moreno has accorded to me in every way, and would 

 specially thank him for th« photographs and maps he has allowed 

 me to use in the following pages. My thanks are also due to Dr. 

 A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., for his kind permission to reproduce 

 his description of the Mylodon skin and other remains discovered 

 at Consuelo Cove by Dr. Moreno ; to Dr. Moreno for permitting 

 me to reprint his account of that interesting discovery, and to Mr. 

 Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., for allowing me to make use of his 

 description of Felis concolor pearsoni, the new sub-species of puma 

 which we brought back. I further offer my acknowledgments to 

 the Zoological Society, in whose "Proceedings" the two first- 

 mentioned papers originally appeared. 



My best thanks are also due to the Royal Geographical Society, 

 who lent us instruments and gave us every aid in their power, and 

 also to Dr. Rendle and Mr. James Britten, of the Botanical Depart- 

 ment of the British Museum, for their kindness in preparing a 

 botanical appendix. 



I must record my indebtedness to Mr. John Guille Millais for 

 the pains he took with his illustrations for this book. Before I 

 started, my friend, Mr. Millais, drew me some sketches of huemul, 

 guanaco, and other Patagonian animals. These I showed to the 

 Tehuelches, and was once taken aback by being offered a com- 

 mission to draw an Indian's dogs. He offered me a trained horse 

 as payment. The praise of the "man who knows" is, after all, 

 the great reward of art. 



My thanks are also due to Mr. Edward Hawes, who kindly 

 overlooked the proofs of this book to correct the spelling of the 



