124 Idle Days in Patagonia. 
point. On the plain some thirty miles east of 
Salinas Grandes, in a small band of ostriches there 
appeared one pure white individual. Some of the 
Indians, when out hunting, attempted its capture, 
but they soon ceased to chase it, and it was called 
thereafter the god of the ostriches, and it was said 
among them that some great disaster, perhaps 
death, would overtake any person who should do it 
harm. 
