Through the heart of Patagonia . lent deathupon the rocks below, but Barckhausen made a great effort to savehim, and succeeded, thouoh the caroo w^is kicked off in a mostperilous place. Only a guanaco track led along the steep hillside,and over the edge of the slope our belongings dropped into theriver a hundred feet below. Each lifted a small cloud of spray asit fell and floated serenely away on the current or sank from water was dotted with the various packages. All Burburysclothes, some of mine, flour, oatmeal, a case of corned beef, sixhundred rounds of ammunition, and the concer
Through the heart of Patagonia . lent deathupon the rocks below, but Barckhausen made a great effort to savehim, and succeeded, thouoh the caroo w^is kicked off in a mostperilous place. Only a guanaco track led along the steep hillside,and over the edge of the slope our belongings dropped into theriver a hundred feet below. Each lifted a small cloud of spray asit fell and floated serenely away on the current or sank from water was dotted with the various packages. All Burburysclothes, some of mine, flour, oatmeal, a case of corned beef, sixhundred rounds of ammunition, and the concertina—these wereamono- our losses. A salvage-party was at once despatched to attempt the rescueof such of our goods as were still swimming, while the rest of uscollected the horses and returned with a sufficiency of ropes toenable us to get down the cliff, for upon the ragged edge left bythe landslip and overhanging the river some of our things hadlodged. We felt that we were for the time bein^ out of luck. THE RIVER VALLEYS 73. THE GLANACO (AN INTIMATE OF THK ZAINOs) We had not long lost the waggon, and now followed the losing ofimportant stores and the yet more Important ammunition. Weknotted together eight of the cargo-ropes, and while Scrivenor andI were doinof- this, Barckhausen retrieved one of the boxes ofammunition, and told us that there were a couple more fartherdown, and out of reach, hefeared, which had stuck inthe soft earth of the , with the aid ofthe rope I managed to bringboth up to safe ground. During this time wecould see Burbury and Jonesfar away in the valley, wherethe river narrowed and thecurrent swino-ino- near thebank offered a hopeful chanceof catchinor the floatinof ar-tides. They succeeded in dragging ashore most of the packages, but Burburys clothes,which were in a brown waterproof bag, sank, the bag, I fancy,having filled with water. Our total losses thus amounted to200 12-bore cartridges, a tin of Mauser ammunition, a 25-kilob
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