. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES 139 which I thought they were likely to break. This they did the instant they saw Jones, who got a shot, breaking the leg of one. I killed another as they passed. We jumped upon our horses to ':''HV<*iitsaitu£«-<i. STERILE GROUND TO NORTH OF LAKE BUENOS AIRES overtake Jones' wounded guanaco, that was keeping up with the herd. My horse, the Alazan, had recently received some jumping lessons, and being an ariimal with no sense of proportion, had been seized with a mania for jumping everything. Jones nearly
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. ROUND AND ABOUT LAKE BUENOS AIRES 139 which I thought they were likely to break. This they did the instant they saw Jones, who got a shot, breaking the leg of one. I killed another as they passed. We jumped upon our horses to ':''HV<*iitsaitu£«-<i. STERILE GROUND TO NORTH OF LAKE BUENOS AIRES overtake Jones' wounded guanaco, that was keeping up with the herd. My horse, the Alazan, had recently received some jumping lessons, and being an ariimal with no sense of proportion, had been seized with a mania for jumping everything. Jones nearly fell off his horse with laughing when the Alazan valiantly charged a califate-bush, eight feet high and full of thorns, through which he dashed in one jump and two supplementary bucks. Emerging upon the other side we set off after our guanaco and enjoyed one of the most glorious gallops that ever fell to the lot of man. I could not help admiring the way in which Jones, who was a born rider, and, like most Gauchos, had lived all his life on the outside of a horse, picked his way among the great fragments of rock that. 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), 1865-1938; Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931, illus; Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935. fmo sgn; Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo; Huntington Free Library. fmo. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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