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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VI 



PAGE 



Set out for Buenos Ayres — Rio Sauce — Sierra Ventana — Third Posta 

 — Driving Horses — Bolas — Partridges and Foxes — Features of the 

 Country — Long-legged Plover — Terutero — Hail-storm — Natural En- 

 closures in the Sierra Tapalguen — Flesh of Puma — Meat Diet — 

 Guardia del Monte— Effects of Cattle on the Vegetation — Cardoon 

 — Buenos Ayres — Corral where Cattle are slaughtered ... n8 



CHAPTER VII 



Excursion to St. Fe — Thistle-Beds — Habits of the Bizcacha — Little Owl 

 — Saline Streams— Level Plains — Mastodon — St. Fe — Change in 

 Landscape— Geology — Tooth of extinct Horse — Relation of the 

 Fossil and Recent Quadrupeds of North and South America — 

 Eifects of a great Drought — Parana — Habits of the Jaguar — Scis- 

 sor-beak — Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail — Revolution — Buenos 

 Ayres — State of Government 135 



CHAPTER VIII 



Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento — Value of an Estancia — Cattle, 

 how counted — Singular Breed of Oxen — Perforated Pebbles — Shep- 

 herd Dogs — Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding — Character of In- 

 habitants — Rio Plata — Flocks of Butterflies— Aeronaut Spiders — 

 Phosphorescence of the Sea — Port Desire— Guanaco — Port St. 

 Julian— Geology of Patagonia — Fossil gigantic Animal_ — Types of 

 Organization constant— Change in the Zoology of America — Causes 

 of Extinction 155 



CHAPTER IX 



Santa Cruz — Expedition up the River — Indians — Immense Streams of 

 Basjaltic Lava — Fragments not transported by the River — Exca- 

 vation of the Valley — Condor, habits of — Cordillera — Erratic 

 Boulders of great size — Indian Relics — Return to the Ship — -Falk- 

 land Islands — Wild Horses, Cattle, Rabbits— Wolf -like Fox — Fire 

 made of Bones — Manner of hunting Wild Cattle — Geology — 

 Streams of Stones — Scenes of Violence — Penguin — Geese — Eggs 

 of Doris — Compound Animals 191 



CHAPTER X 



Tierra del Fuego, first arrival — Good Success Bay — An Account of 

 the Fuegians on board — Interview with the Savages — Scenery 

 of the Forests— Cape Horn — Wigwam Cove — Miserable Condi- 

 tion of the Savages — Famines — Cannibals — Matricide — -Religious 

 Feelings — Great Gale — Beagle Channel — Ponsonby Sound — Build 

 Wigwams and settle the Fuegians — Bifurcation of the Beagle 

 Channel — Glaciers — Return to the Ship — Second Visit in the Ship 

 to the Settlement — Equality of Condition amongst the Natives . 219 



CHAPTER XI 



Strait of Magellan — Port Famine — Ascent of Mount Tarn — Forests 

 — Edible Fungus — Zoology — Great Sea-weed — Leave Tierra del 

 Fuego— Climate — Fruit-trees and Productions of the Southern 

 Coasts — Height of Snow-line on the Cordillera — Descent of Gla- 

 ciers to the Sea — Icebergs formed — Transportal of Boulders — 

 Climate and Productions of the Antarctic Islands — Preservation 

 of Frozen Carcasses — Recapitulation 247 



