Through the heart of Patagonia . e Cordillera, but gave manifest signs of anger and a readinessto attack. Another case is that of Dr. Francisco P. Moreno,who, upon the banks of the River Leona, a river which flowsbetween Lake Aroentmo and Lake Viedma, and is seldomvisited, was attacked by a puma. He was, he informs me,walking wrapped in the skin of a guanaco, and he fancies theanimal may have mistaken him for a guanaco. It sprang uponhis shoulders and tore him under the chin with its claws, but wasluckily beaten off by his companion and killed. This puma wasfound to be in milk, a fact which, a
Through the heart of Patagonia . e Cordillera, but gave manifest signs of anger and a readinessto attack. Another case is that of Dr. Francisco P. Moreno,who, upon the banks of the River Leona, a river which flowsbetween Lake Aroentmo and Lake Viedma, and is seldomvisited, was attacked by a puma. He was, he informs me,walking wrapped in the skin of a guanaco, and he fancies theanimal may have mistaken him for a guanaco. It sprang uponhis shoulders and tore him under the chin with its claws, but wasluckily beaten off by his companion and killed. This puma wasfound to be in milk, a fact which, arguing the presence of heryoung near at hand, probably accounted for the unusual outbreakof fierceness. The young were searched for but not discovered. A third instance is that^of Mr. Arenberg, one of the ArgentineBoundary Commissioners, who was mauled by a puma in the ATTITUDE OF WILD ANIMALS TOWARDS MAX 243 neighbourhood of Lake Buenos Aires, at a spot probably hithertounvisited by man. He was seriously wounded in the face. As. Till. HL1-MLL Dti WIULII TOUCllKU Till-; AUTHOR. riU)TUGK.\lMEI) WITH . t.\.Ml.!CAAS SHE KETIKED a rule, the puma is a cowardly animal, and is frequently killed bythe Indians with a bo/as.* Although, during the whole of our journty, we were constantlycoming upon evidences of the presence of pumas round and aboutour camps, it was not until we had entered the Cordillera thatthey actually reconnoitred the camp. In a forest near LakeArgentino, one moonlight night, two pumas circled round ourcamp, and for uj)wards of half an hour kept uttering their peculiarcry. Pumas often stampeded our horses and left phi in tracksnear the camp, but in spite of this they killed no animal, not evena dog, belonging to us. =•= This method been referred to in another chapter. 244 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA Puma cubs In captivity become very tame. One settlerwhom I met had two cubs about a year old. They were attachedto their new home, and though they would
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