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that it was useless to expect to go after any sort of game with 
lances in a country as dense as this. "The only way you could 
get room to lance a hoar would he to kill him first, and drag 
him out in the open. " Eventually they discovered the im- 
practical ity of the i r scheme , and turned the wild hoars loose. 
They have heen increasing in the forest in great numbers , and 
do a lot of damage to young lambs. Jones hi j self loses as many 
as 300 lambs a year. However, he and his sons go out on horse- 
back, ride the boars down, and shoot them at close range with 
pistols, and he allows as how that is good sport and worth 
paying 300 lambs a year fori The boars run as high as 300 pounds 
apiece, and getting them at close range, dodging their dangerous 
tusks - dangerous for both man and horse, is a thrilling game. 
May_29 - Bariloche 
We were supposed to go over to Isla Victoria today, but 
when we woke, rain was falling , and we supposed the excursion was 
off. About ten o'clock it cleared, however, and the park super- 
intendent, Mr. Christenson, said it was all right for us to go. 
Taking a basket lunch that the Mays he jiT ^ " e' -f , ^3 ' ' 
a launch across the lake, and spent most oi the time in open- 
mouthed admiration of the spectacular cloud effects over the 
mountain tops. 
It was nearly a three-hour run, and when we drew up to 
the landing we were met by Dr. Franc ke and his two pet guanacos. 
Never have I seen a more pi cturesque setting for a pictures- 
que character. Isla Victoria is a heavily wooded island in the 
middle of the lake, about 16 miles long by 6 wide. Here the 
government wants to establish a game refuge, and they have put Dr. 
Francke, an enthusiastic young German naturalist, in charge. He 
has curiy red hair and a red beard, wears a mono cl# has lived, in 
Aegentina for fifteen years, and speaks good English as well as 
Spanish and German. He was dressed in a wide-brimmed brown felt 
hat, gaucho trousers , with brown jacket and wool shirt to match, 
a scarf around his neck, a sash around his waist, and over that 
a leather belt with a silver buckle and a revolver thrust into it, 
his flowing trousers were gathered into half-boots. The two guanacoas 
are his pets, having been brought by him from babyhood, and he had 
not realised until this morning quite how strong they have grown. 
The guanacos were excited at having so many visitors, and did 
their best to climb on our backs and to kiss our noses. We, not 
being used to such greetings, tried to dodge, and Franoke had his 
arms full of long camel-like necks until his assistant fame and 
took the beasts away. 
Francke has cleared the forest be tween his comfortable log 
house and the lake, so that from the windows one has a spectacular 
view of the lake and the snow-covered mountains. A big black 
