58 
The N ahiralist in La Plata. 
donada, whicli may be taken as proof that she 
was among the few that survived the first dis- 
astrous settlement and lived on to more fortunate 
times : his pious pun on her name would be lost 
in a translation \ — De esta manera quedo libre la 
que ofrecieron a las fieras : la cual mujer yo la 
conoci, y la llamaban la Maldonada, que mas bien 
se le podia llamar la Biendonada; pues por este 
suceso se ha de ver no haber merecido el castigo a 
que la ofrecieron.” 
If such a thing were to happen now, in any 
portion of southern South America, where the 
puma’s disposition is best known, it would not be 
looked on as a miracle, as it was, and that un- 
avoidably, in the case of Maldonada. 
