Through the heart of Patagonia . vely speak-ing, but little animal lifeflourishes under the un-numbered snow peaks, andin the unmeasured spacesof virp^in forest, which valleys and in manyplaces cloak the mountainsfrom base to of square miles of forest-land, gorges, open slopes, and terraced hollow s lie lost inthe vast embrace of the Patagonian Andes, on which the eye ofman has never yet fallen. Our travels took us over a great part of the countr\. Starlingin September 1900, we zigzagged from Trelew by HahiaCamerones, to Lakes Colhue and Musters and alonor the Ri\
Through the heart of Patagonia . vely speak-ing, but little animal lifeflourishes under the un-numbered snow peaks, andin the unmeasured spacesof virp^in forest, which valleys and in manyplaces cloak the mountainsfrom base to of square miles of forest-land, gorges, open slopes, and terraced hollow s lie lost inthe vast embrace of the Patagonian Andes, on which the eye ofman has never yet fallen. Our travels took us over a great part of the countr\. Starlingin September 1900, we zigzagged from Trelew by HahiaCamerones, to Lakes Colhue and Musters and alonor the Ri\erSenguerr to Lake Buenos Aires. After spending a time in theneighbourhood of that lake, we followed the Indian for somedistance, then touching the Southern (^hico we reached SantaCruz on the east coast in January 1901. Leaving most of theexpedition there, I returned with two companions by the course ofthe River Santa Cruz to the Cordillera, where I rcmainetl forsome months, and in Mav I once more crossed the continent to. HAI,F-BKEEO GAUCHO 14 THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA Gallegos to take ship for Punta Arenas, the only port in Patagoniawhere a steamer calls regularly. I left Patagonia in June compute that the whole distance covered by the journeyings ofthe expedition cannot have fallen short of 2000 miles. Of the zoology of Patagonia little is known. Of the fauna andtlora of the Cordillera of the southern central part it is not toomuch to say that practically nothing is known. Patagonia thusoffers one of the most interesting fields in the world to the travellerand naturalist. With these preliminary remarks, I will beg the reader toembark with me upon the Argentine National transport thePriinero de Mayo, bound from the port of Buenos Aires for thesouth. CHAPTER II SOUTHWARD HO! Leaving England—Start — Priincro de Mayo — Port Belgrano—Welshcolonists—Story of Mafeking—First sight of Patagonia—Guolfo Nuevo—Port Madryn—Landing—Trelew—A pocket
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