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from the windward side. When the cougar broke from 

 the bushes, the Indian rode after her, and threw his 

 boias, which twisted around her hind legs; and while 

 she was struggling to free herself, he brained her with 

 his second bolas. The doctor's injuries were rather pain- 

 ful, but not serious. 



Twenty-one years later, in April, 1898, he was 

 camped on the same lake, but on the north shore, at the 

 foot of a basaltic cliff. He was in company with four 

 soldiers, with whom he had travelled from the Strait 

 of Magellan. In the night he was aroused by the shriek 

 of a man and the barking of his dogs. As the men 

 sprang up from where they were lying asleep they saw a 

 large puma run off out of the firelight into the darkness. 

 It had sprung on a soldier named Marcelino Huquen 

 while he was asleep, and had tried to carry him off. 

 Fortunately, the man was so wrapped up in his blanket, 

 as the night was cold, that he was not injured. The 

 puma was never found or killed. 



About the same time a surveyor of Doctor Moreno's 

 party, a Swede named Arneberg, was attacked in similar 

 fashion. The doctor was not with him at the time. Mr. 

 Arneberg was asleep in the forest near Lake San Martin 

 The cougar both bit and clawed him, and tore his mouth, 

 breaking out three teeth. The man was rescued; but 

 this puma also escaped. 



The doctor stated that in this particular locality the 

 Indians, who elsewhere paid no heed whatever to the 

 puma, never let their women go out after wood for fuel 

 unless two or three were together. This was because 

 on several occasions women who had gone out alone 



