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actly locate places and objects. Lastly we rode to a small 

 exposure, also Patagonian, where we found a few fragments 

 of dolphin ribs. These men who ride after sheep are very 

 keen about seeing petrified objects, so that in a new 

 country they may be very helpful in getting one started 

 in finding specimens if there are any about. When we got 

 in it was about six and we were ready for supper. 



In the morning we brought our wagon across country 

 to the head of a long canyon, down which we went across 

 bushes and gullies until we came to the water hole located 

 the day before. A camp site was finally picked in the very 

 bottom of the narrow gully where for once we were fully 

 protected against the wind. By noon we were fully located 

 and spent the rest of the day exploring the nearer breaks. 

 No bones turned up, though there were hosts of marine 

 shells in the best state of preservation of any we had yet 

 encountered. Of these we made a goodly collection. 

 But we were hunting bones. Next day the story was the 

 same except that we got a considerable distance from camp. 

 While the tide was out, going along the beach was easy 

 and we rather lost track of the distance. When we came 

 to return the beach was covered, which forced us to climb 

 over the breaks and boulders. Billy and I got in a little 

 after six, but the boys were further out and starting back 

 later had worse troubles, finally coming in with their 

 tongues hanging out just after dark. We had really be- 

 come worried about them. It was a country in which one 

 is easily lost, for the mouths of the multitude of canyons 

 all look much alike. We had all been equally unsuccess- 

 ful, so after spending the first half of the next day bringing 

 in some finds of shells which we had made, we broke up 

 the camp, did some fancy driving in turning around and 

 getting out of the gully, and returned to the estancia. 



There was still some country which we had not seen be- 

 tween us and the Deseado River. So we arranged that the 

 boys should stay at the ranch and help with the sheep,. 



