. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. FIRST PASSING THROUGH HELLGATE ^73 How we managed to get her off it is impossible to describe ; we did it somehow. The next morning was still windy, but we steamed along the Canal de los Tempanos under Mount Buenos. GLACIER DE LOS TEMPANOS Aires, and there it was that a fire broke out on the launch. This was an accident we always dreaded, for, having no room elsewhere, we were obliged to pile the fuel round her engine, with the result that it occasionally became dangerously heated. Landing at the end of the Canal de los Tempanos we found ourse
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. FIRST PASSING THROUGH HELLGATE ^73 How we managed to get her off it is impossible to describe ; we did it somehow. The next morning was still windy, but we steamed along the Canal de los Tempanos under Mount Buenos. GLACIER DE LOS TEMPANOS Aires, and there it was that a fire broke out on the launch. This was an accident we always dreaded, for, having no room elsewhere, we were obliged to pile the fuel round her engine, with the result that it occasionally became dangerously heated. Landing at the end of the Canal de los Tempanos we found ourselves in forests of magnificent timber. The vegetation was rank and luxuriant, a mass of decay under a forest of life. From the swampy dank ground tall stems sprang up straight and branch- less as palms, while at their feet grew a carpet of ferns. We had some marvellous days of fine weather in the Cordillera, where on the mountain slopes, as winter drew on, the crimson shades crept deeper to mingle with and finally change the green. In due time we reached the South Fjord by water. The account of a previous visit on horseback has already been told. Then we turned homewards, and on the way I secured some good photos s. 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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