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they use three stones, each attached to a thong, the three thongs being 
tied together as in the sketch (fig. 4). They hold the one lowest in the 
sketch— which I think, but am not quite sure yet, is a smaller one—in 
the hand, and while galloping along, swing the other two round and 
Fig. 2. Arrowheads. 
Fig. 3. Boleras. Fig. 4. Lasso. 
round, and let go at the guanaco. The whole twists round the beast’s 
legs, and down it comes. 
At Santa Cruz the owner of an estancia about forty miles inland to 
which we—that is, the Captain of the Tudorstar, Miss Hamilton, my 
secretary, who is very keen on the work and is going to study the native 
women, and myself—motored out, gave me first a very fine Teuelche 
skull 1 that he had dug out of a grave, secondly some of the blunt arrow¬ 
heads, and thirdly a beautiful bolera with thong attached and all com¬ 
plete, used for catching what they call ‘ostriches’ here (Rhea), which 
also I saw on the Pampas. The stone (fig. 3, 2) has a much deeper 
groove than the larger ones, and is only about half the size of these: 
also, whilst the latter are only pecked over their surface, this one is 
ground down quite smooth. It is almost enclosed in leather (fig. 5 )* The 
1 Vide Preface, p. vii. The skull is marked ‘San. Julian’, but should be marked 
‘Santa Cruz’ according to Miss Hamilton. 
