. The earth and its inhabitants .. . West oF breenwich Depths. 0tol2 Fathoms. 12 Fathoms and upwards. 30 Miles. circular basin of Golfo Nuevo, where the Fori Iladnjn pier projects into the bay. From this point they reached the banks of the Chubut by an overland route across the wilderness, and forthwith set about the work of colonisation, building cabins, tilling and sowing the ground. But all were either quarrymen or coal-miners, unaccustomed to field operations. The crops were wretched in this arid Patagonian region where rain seldom falls, and where at times the soil remains unrefreshed by
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . West oF breenwich Depths. 0tol2 Fathoms. 12 Fathoms and upwards. 30 Miles. circular basin of Golfo Nuevo, where the Fori Iladnjn pier projects into the bay. From this point they reached the banks of the Chubut by an overland route across the wilderness, and forthwith set about the work of colonisation, building cabins, tilling and sowing the ground. But all were either quarrymen or coal-miners, unaccustomed to field operations. The crops were wretched in this arid Patagonian region where rain seldom falls, and where at times the soil remains unrefreshed by a single shower for two or three years together. Fortunately these persevering settlers were men of kindly feeling, and soon made friends of the Tehuel-che Indians, who supplied them with food, such as game, fish, wild berries from the mountains in exchange for bread and a few little articles of English manufacture.
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