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Chapter I. Brazil and Argentine Republic 13 



Reasons for the expedition- — embarkation — flying fish — Neptune cere- 

 monies — Bahia — Rio Janeiro — Santos — Buenos Aires — La Plata — 

 equipment — coasting along Patagonia. 



Chapter II. Patagonia and the Pampa 31 



Puerto Madryn — finding an Indian camp site — marine fossils — Trelew 



and the Welsh — North American bandits — horses — the start — the 



pampa vegetation — climate. 



Chapter III. Life on the Arid Plains 46 



Patagonian hospitality — matfe custom — Dos Posos — -the great rain — a 

 German estancia — stuck in the canyon — getting out — Patagonian 

 fisheries — Shumway's fall — guanaco — collecting plants, etc. — 

 Camerones. 



Chapter IV. Difficulties of Wagon Travel 60 



Lost road — at the mud house — no trail — fossil shells — ostriches and 



eggs — long leagues — Port Visser — snow — one hundred miles for 



mail — Patagonian nights — banking difficulties. 



Chapter V. A Fossn. Forest 71 



Boys find petrified trees — their appearance — collecting — packing and 

 shipping — provisioning — the pampa again — the Boer colony — 

 " man-with-the-bone " — finding of petrified bones — new camp. 



Chapter VI. Collecting Extinct Animals 78 



A typical day's hunt — a find — preparing the specimen — collecting it — 

 getting together — the oyster bed — camp work — some fossils — the 

 martineta — Pyrotherium skull — trip to Port Visser — lost horses — ' 



armadilloes — Boer colony — David Venter's — Indian grave — snow — 

 packing up and shipping — a lost supper — the mules — race with the 

 tide — stolen horses — a record trip. 



Chapter VII. Comodoro Rivadavia and Town Life 94 



Water supplies — discovery of oil — distilled water — wool — freighters — 

 sheep business — Sarmiento trail — boliche hospitality — cross coun- 

 try and wrong trail — no water — Frau Romberg's piano — no water — 

 Mazaredo — fossil shells — more bones. 



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