. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . referred,and Carlos Ameghino had been unfortunate in linkingtheir legends relating to the great cat with the harmlessedentate, which was a vegetarian, and had been fedupon hay. It was quite a merry war, while it literature provoked by the discussion is printed in 222 To the River Plate and Back six or seven languages, and would fill a large volume, ifbrought together. Out of the affair came a better knowledge of Pata-gonian lands and the perception of the fact that thefauna of the Pampean beds ha
. To the River Plate and back; the narrative of a scientific mission to South America . referred,and Carlos Ameghino had been unfortunate in linkingtheir legends relating to the great cat with the harmlessedentate, which was a vegetarian, and had been fedupon hay. It was quite a merry war, while it literature provoked by the discussion is printed in 222 To the River Plate and Back six or seven languages, and would fill a large volume, ifbrought together. Out of the affair came a better knowledge of Pata-gonian lands and the perception of the fact that thefauna of the Pampean beds had survived to some extentto quite recent times; at all events that one of the nearrelatives of the Megatherium and the Mylodon had atsome remote period, perhaps within the Christian era,been held in captivity, kept in corrals, fed with hay, andused for food. In the case of the writer the mostinteresting result was the acquisition for the CarnegieMuseum of a piece of the hide from the cave at LastHope Inlet, together with a lot of the hair and the driedordure of the Mysterious hJ 3 ^ 1 CHAPTER XVI LIFE IN LA PLATA 1 do not own an inch of land, But all I sec is mine,—The orchard and the mowing-fields The lawns and gardens winds my lux-collectors are They bring me tithes divine,—Wild scents and subtle essences, A tribute rare and freeAnd more magnificent than all, My window keeps for nuA glimpse of blue immensity,— A littlo strip of sra. —Luty Larcom. THE greater pari ot the lime which we sjx^nt in LaPlata was necessarily devoted to our tasks in theMuseum. But there were a number of holidays andholy days when our labors were interrupted. As in allLatin lands the calendar of the Church is due to this cause and the comparativelyshort hours at the Museum gave opportunity now andthen to take long walks. The extreme flatness of theregion did not at first glance hold out promise of enter-tainment, but there are other things besides hills a
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