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as I walked on deeper into it. I saw two huemul 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 Argentino as 



LAKE PEARSON 



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

 cliffs of the western shore, glimmering out palely in the north-west 

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

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

 the mechanism of which did not permit of long exposures. 



I must admit that I was disappointed with the lake when 

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

 The nearer shores were somewhat low and covered with boulders, 

 while upon the farther sides rose a semicircle of hills whose 

 escarpments fell in places abruptly to the water. About the in- 

 ferior spurs of a somewhat higher mountain to the north a dense 



