DR. MORENO'S ADVENTURES 29 



her with his second bolas. The doctor's injuries were 

 rather painful, 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 

 tipae. 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 

 were killed by pumas. Evidently in this one locality 

 the habit of at least occasional man-eating has become 

 chronic with a species which elsewhere is the most 

 cowardly, and to man the least dangerous, of all the 

 big cats. 



These observations of Doctor Moreno have a peculiar 

 value, because, as far as I know, they are the first trust- 



