Through the heart of Patagonia . THE HUNTKKS KKXrKN Darwin describes the guanaco as generally wild and extremely wary. THE BATTLE OF THE HORSES 45. FJIL/S PL where it winds through the marshes. In the niiiht the doo-s be^-an to bark, for a lion came into camp. We could hear it moving by the dead camp-fire among the pots and pans. Burbury fired his revolver in its direction ; he was sleeping on the outside of the tent. This morning we have found the lions lair, twentv vards up in the rock above our camp. Fritz said last night, And if you hear me cry out, it is the lion, he zomp o
Through the heart of Patagonia . THE HUNTKKS KKXrKN Darwin describes the guanaco as generally wild and extremely wary. THE BATTLE OF THE HORSES 45. FJIL/S PL where it winds through the marshes. In the niiiht the doo-s be^-an to bark, for a lion came into camp. We could hear it moving by the dead camp-fire among the pots and pans. Burbury fired his revolver in its direction ; he was sleeping on the outside of the tent. This morning we have found the lions lair, twentv vards up in the rock above our camp. Fritz said last night, And if you hear me cry out, it is the lion, he zomp on me. Fritz is very jocu-lar sometimes : Aha,my little horse, hezomp ! and Mine littlebitch, vou ooand catcha pfuanaco. To-niixhthe was roasting an os-trich e^To- and it ex- ploded and shot him all over with yellow yolk. He remarked, Heis goot, this ^%%, but he smell a bit of skunk. October 13.—Mending waggon, no wood. At ten oclockwaoforon mended but needed a rest in the sun till the hide ofcruanaco we had bound it with should drv. So I decided to taketo-day as our Sunday and march to-morrow. Burbury is makinga plum-duff. Served out tobac
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