Through the heart of Patagonia . o farther. His companions had in my absence visited our camp and hadconversed with Burbury. This conversation, however, left us amuch more valuable legacy. One of these men, an Austrian, hadinformed Burbury that the Indians had told him of a puma whichlived farther to the south amono- the foothills of the Cordillera,and which differed in some essential respects from the grey pumaof the plains. He described it as being of a reddish colour, morefierce than the silver puma, and much smaller! This was thefirst time I heard of the animal now named Fclis concolorpcar
Through the heart of Patagonia . o farther. His companions had in my absence visited our camp and hadconversed with Burbury. This conversation, however, left us amuch more valuable legacy. One of these men, an Austrian, hadinformed Burbury that the Indians had told him of a puma whichlived farther to the south amono- the foothills of the Cordillera,and which differed in some essential respects from the grey pumaof the plains. He described it as being of a reddish colour, morefierce than the silver puma, and much smaller! This was thefirst time I heard of the animal now named Fclis concolorpcarsoni,of which I afterwards was fortunate enough to obtain a skin. When we arrived in camp, which we did late upon that afternoon,we ourselves as well as our horses were pretty well tired out, buta couple of days in the tent, a tin of cocoa, and some ointment forthe cuts received from the rocks in the river, soon reinvigoratedus, and we were ready to start for the River de los Antiguos. thescene of our petty disasters, once YOUNG GUANACO CHAPTER XI SOME HUNTING CAMPS Second trip to De los Antiguos River—Pass Rosy Camp—Fenix flood gonedown—Wounded guanaco takes to water—Mauser and shot-gun retrieved—Losing and seeking in Patagonia—Recover horses at Rest-and-be-ThankfulCamp—Visit to River Jeinemeni—Trained horse for hunting—Shootingguanaco—Condors—Cahadon of Jeinemeni—Huemul hunting—Ostriches andtheir habits—Return to Horsham Camp—Night in camp. On December i6, the Interval having been taken out by me insleeping off my chill and fatigue, Scrlvenor, Jones and I made astart to retrieve the horses abandoned in the Los Antiofuoscahadon by Barckhausen and myself. We each took a horse anda spare animal which carried the tent, for the weather was breakingto the westward. It was our intention to ride the fifty milesbackon the horses which we had left behind in the Gorgre. On arriving at the Fenix we were delighted to find that Itswaters had fallen cons
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