. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. THE BATTLE OF THE HORSES 39 enough, owing to some inequality of the ground, the waggon, although very heavily laden, did not hurt the animal. He was not even cut, and when we got him up he resumed his journey as if nothing had happened, and eventually turned out one of our best horses. We now made two or three good marches in succession, but on. J. B. SCRIVENOR (GEOLOGIST) AND MULA October 10, in spite of all precautions, the horses belonging to the black mare's troop deserted her.* Upon this, finding that until the horses of the different tro
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. THE BATTLE OF THE HORSES 39 enough, owing to some inequality of the ground, the waggon, although very heavily laden, did not hurt the animal. He was not even cut, and when we got him up he resumed his journey as if nothing had happened, and eventually turned out one of our best horses. We now made two or three good marches in succession, but on. J. B. SCRIVENOR (GEOLOGIST) AND MULA October 10, in spite of all precautions, the horses belonging to the black mare's troop deserted her.* Upon this, finding that until the horses of the different troops became more used to each other, it would be almost impossible to keep them together on the open pampas, where, as a further disadvantage, the grass was poor and sparse, and the horses had to scatter a great deal to feed, I decided to cut across to the Rio Chico of Chubut and march along the river valley, the tall cliffs of which would serve as a barrier to pre- vent the tropilla straying. Never was such an awful place as these pampas in which to lose anything, or, worse still, to get lost yourself You ride a hundred yards or so and you are in some deep-mouthed canadon, lying flush with the pampa, and out of sight of your com- panions in an instant. On the expedition we spoke four languages—Spanish, English, German and Welsh, but English was more used than the others. * When a mare is in foal—as was the case'with the black mare—her troop will often desert her and wander away, but when the foal is born the horses become very much attached to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922; Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919; Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944; Thomas, Oldfield, 1858-1929; Britten, James, 1846-1924; Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865
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