. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . ite resort of the people, and wasthronged with visitors when we reached it about threeoclock in the afternoon. It is true the day was a holi-day, but on the occasion of a subsequent visit I found,though it was not a holiday, a great gathering of youngand old people filling the grounds. The collection of an-imals is extensive and they are evidently well fed. Thejaguars were particularly fine. There were a number ofthem, some of which were very large and powerful one time the jaguars did a great dea
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . ite resort of the people, and wasthronged with visitors when we reached it about threeoclock in the afternoon. It is true the day was a holi-day, but on the occasion of a subsequent visit I found,though it was not a holiday, a great gathering of youngand old people filling the grounds. The collection of an-imals is extensive and they are evidently well fed. Thejaguars were particularly fine. There were a number ofthem, some of which were very large and powerful one time the jaguars did a great deal of mischiefamong the cattle in the northern provinces of Argen-tina, but their numbers have steadily decreased inrecent years, and in the immediate vicinity of BuenosAires they have become totally extinct, and it is onlywhen a great freshet occurs in the river, and floatingislands of driftwood are brought down from the tropicalnorth, that stray specimens now and then the occasion of a great flood in the Rio de la Platawhich took place a few years ago, I was informed that. Guanacos in the Zoological Garden at Buenos Aires. !E!!1H::!!!
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