. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. PATAGONIA 13 usual sort of folk who form the bulk of dwellers on the edge of civilisation. In Patagonia it is not difficult to leave civilisation behind you, for between lat. 43° and 50° S. the interior, save for a very few pioneers and small tribes of wan- dering Tehuelche Indians, is at the present day un- peopled. When the line of the Cordillera is reached, you come to a region abso- lutely houseless, where no human inhabitant is to be found. Comparatively speak- ing, but little animal life flourishes under the un- numbered snow peaks, and
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. PATAGONIA 13 usual sort of folk who form the bulk of dwellers on the edge of civilisation. In Patagonia it is not difficult to leave civilisation behind you, for between lat. 43° and 50° S. the interior, save for a very few pioneers and small tribes of wan- dering Tehuelche Indians, is at the present day un- peopled. When the line of the Cordillera is reached, you come to a region abso- lutely houseless, where no human inhabitant is to be found. Comparatively speak- ing, but little animal life flourishes under the un- numbered snow peaks, and in the unmeasured spaces of virgin forest, which cover those valleys and in many places cloak the mountains from base to shoulder. Hundreds of square miles of forest-land, gorges, open slopes, and terraced hollows lie lost in the vast embrace of the Patagonian Andes, on which the eye of man has never yet fallen. Our travels took us over a great part of the country. Starting in September 1900, we zigzagged from Trelew by Bahia Camerones, to Lakes Colhue and Musters and along the River Senguerr to Lake Buenos Aires. After spending a time in the neighbourhood of that lake, we followed the Indian trail for some distance, then touching the Southern Chico we reached Santa Cruz on the east coast in January 1901. Leaving most of the expedition there, I returned with two companions by the course of the River Santa Cruz to the Cordillera, where I remained for some months, and in May I once more crossed the continent to. W!W«P?P~'r"^T^ ^ '^ HALF-BREED GAUCHO. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922; Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919; Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Britten, James, 1846-1924; Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 18
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