yOUNG GUANACO 



CHAPTER XI 



SOME HUNTING CAMPS . 



Second trip to De los Antiguos River— Pass Rosy Camp— Fenix flood gone 

 down — Wounded guanaco takes to water — Mauser and shot-gun retrieved — 

 Losing and seeking in Patagonia — Recover horses at Rest-and-be-Thankful 

 Camp— Visit to River Jeinemeni— Trained horse for hunting— Shooting 

 guanaco— Condors — Canadon of Jeinemeni — Huemul hunting— Ostriches and 

 their habits— Return to Horsham Camp— Night in camp. 



On December i6, the interval having been taken out by me in 

 sleeping off my chill and fatigue, Scrivenor, Jones and I made a 

 start to retrieve the horses abandoned in the Los Antiguos 

 canadon by Barckhausen and myself. We each took a horse and 

 a spare animal which carried the tent, for the v^^eather was breaking 

 to the westward. It was our intention to ride the fifty miles back 

 on the horses which we had left behind in the Gorge. 



On arriving at the Fenix we were delighted to find that its 

 waters had fallen considerably, and that the pebbly bank in mid- 

 stream, at the ford by Rosy Camp, was once more visible. Almost 

 upon our old camping-ground we found, as we rode over the sand- 

 hills by the lake, a pair of guanaco feeding. Jones dismounted 

 and had a couple of shots, neither of which took effect. The 

 animals had, however, not perceived Scrivenor and myself, and 

 came past us upon the shores of the lake, and here Jones and I 

 ran down and met the female, killing her after a long chase, which 

 ended by her trying to swim out into the lake. 



Upon the evening of the second day we saw again the ill" 



