. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. PATAGONI
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. PATAGONIA AND THE PATAGONIANS. 417. TATAOONIANa. i i iH*, 'hii CHAPTER XL. PATAGONIA AND THE PATAGONIANS. DilToroncf of between East nnd West riit:i<;onia.âExtraordinarj' Aridity of East Pataponia.â Zodlofiy.âThe (luaiiaco.âTheTucutuco.âThe, l'atai;(inian ARouti.âViiltuii's.âTlie Tiirliey-buz- zard.âTlie Ciirrancha.âTlie Chiiiiantio.â's Ostricli.âThe Pata};oidaii;' âl",xai.'norate(l Ac- ciiiiiits nf tlieir Stature.âTlicir I'hyslonnuniy and Dress.âKelif^ioiis Ideas.âSii[i(Mstiti(ins.â.\stro- noniic d Knowledfje.âDivision into Tribes.âThe Tent, or Toldo.âTradiiif; Koutcs.âThe great Cacique.âIi\troductioii of the Horse.âIndustry.âAniusenients.âCharacter. T)-VTAGOXIA, the soutliorn extremity of the American contment, is divided â¢^ by the ridge of the Andes into two parts of a totally different character. Its western coast-lands, washed by the cold Antarctic current and o posed to tlie Iiiiinid gales of a restless ocean, are almost constantly ohsciireil with clouds and drenched with rain. Dense forests, dripping witti moisture, clothe the Ktee|) hill-sides; and, from the coldness of the summer, the snow-line is so low that for GoO miles northward of Tierra del Fuego almost every arm of the sea wliieh penetrates to the interior higher chain is terminated by huge glaciers ileseeiuliiig to the water's edge. East Patagonia, on the contrary,
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