. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . arther on I found a well-pre-served shoulder-blade of Paleolama, an animal whichwas related to the guanaco. While I was finishing thetask of cutting this bone out of the matrix, my com-I)anion called to me excitedly and beckoned me to cometo him. When I arrived at the spot he j)ointed to apiece of what evidently was a ix)tsherd projectingfrom the dark chocolate-colored mass of the matrixin which it was imbedded. This is worth all the costof this excursion! he said. I have nottouched thething. Look at it att
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . arther on I found a well-pre-served shoulder-blade of Paleolama, an animal whichwas related to the guanaco. While I was finishing thetask of cutting this bone out of the matrix, my com-I)anion called to me excitedly and beckoned me to cometo him. When I arrived at the spot he j)ointed to apiece of what evidently was a ix)tsherd projectingfrom the dark chocolate-colored mass of the matrixin which it was imbedded. This is worth all the costof this excursion! he said. I have nottouched thething. Look at it attentively. Tell me, has that thingbecome recently imbedded where it is, or is it where ithas Ix^n for ages, until the waves ate their way into * I knelt down and critically examined 200 To the River Plate and Back the object. I am able unqualifiedly to affirm thatthis piece of pottery, for such it appears to me to be,is imbedded in the matrix, and has not been disturbedby the hands of man. Good! replied my companion,I am glad to have had you with me, and to have had. Fig. 17—Mylodon rohustus Owen. 2^ nat. size. (After Owen.) you see the thing in situ. Years ago I was digging upthe bones of a Scelidotherium, and, as I was doing so, Icame upon a flint arrowhead buried in the soil along-side of the bones. I took the flint with the bones toBurmeister, who was then the Director of the Museumat Buenos Aires, and under whom I was working. I A Tri|> U) Mar del IMaUi 201 explained to him how and where I had found the was quite incredulous, and maintained that in someway or other I had fallen into error. What became ofthe flint I do not know. It has disapjieared, and al-though I have had a careful search made in the Museumand have endeavored in every way to trace it, it can-not now be found. Several times before, in this veryneighborhood, I have found bits of pottery imbeddedin the Middle Pampean beds. People are do not absolutely contradi
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