CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTER VI. 



Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Transportal of 

 pebbles — Third posta — Driving horses — Bolas — Partridges and foxes — 

 Features of country — Long-legged plover — Teru-tero — Hailstorm — 

 Natural enclosures in Sierra Tapalguen — Flesh of puma — Meat diet — 

 Guardia del Monte — Effects of cattle on the vegetation — Cardoon — 

 Buenos Ayres — Corral where animals are slaughtered • . 124 



CPIAPTER VII. 



Excursion to St. Fe — Thistle beds— Habits and range of Bizcacha — Little 

 owl — Saline streams — Level plains— Mastodon— St. Fe — Change in 

 landscape — Geology — Tooth of extinct horse — Range of fossil quadru- 

 peds — Pampas full of remains — Effects of great droughts — Droughts 

 periodical — Parana — Habits of Jaguar — Scissor-beak — Kingfisher, 

 parrot, and scissor-tail — Revolution — Buenos Ayres—State of govern- 

 ment . . . . . .142 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Monte Video — Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento — Horses, swimming 

 — Value of an Estancia — Cattle, how counted — Geology — Great thistle- 

 beds — Rio Negro — Perforated pebbles— Shepherd dogs — Horses broken 

 in, Gauchos riding, feats with lazo — Toxodon — Armadillo-like gigantic 

 covering— Great tail— Return to Monte Video— Character of inha- 

 bitants . . . . . . 167 



CHAPTER IX. 



Rio Plata — Flocks of butterflies — Beetles alive in the sea — Aeronaut 

 spiders — Pelagic animals — Phosphorescence of sea — Port Desire — 

 Spanish settlements — Zoology — Guanaco — Excursion to head of har- 

 bour — Indian grave — Port St, Julian — Geology of Patagonia, succes- 

 sive terraces, transport of pebbles — Fossil gigantic llama — Types of 

 organization constant — Change in zoology of America — Causes of ex- 

 tinction . . . . ' . . 185 



CHAPTER X. 



Santa Cruz — Expedition up river — Indians — Character of Patagonia — 

 Basaltic platform — Immense streams of lava — Non-transport of blocks 

 by river — Excavation of valley — Condor, range and habits — Cordil- 

 lera — Erratic boulders of great size— Indian relics — Return to the 

 ship . . . . . .213 



CHAPTER XI. 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — Interview with sa- 

 vages — Scenery of the forests— Sir J. Banks's hill— Cape Horn — Wig- 

 wam Cove — Miserable condition of savages— Beagle channel — Fuegians 

 — Ponsonby Sound — Equality of condition among the natives — Bifurca- 

 tion of the Beagle channel — Glaciers — Return to ship . 227 



