. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. SOUTHWARD HO! 31. hollow, and, as we rode through this, I told my companions to ride on and threw them my cabresto (leading--r6pe of a horse). I slid off the horse and crawled up the hill. Upon the bare face of it was a thicket of poison-bush, and into this 1 ultimately made my way. The sentinel guanaco was there above me, stretching out his long neck, and every now and then giving his high neighing laugh. When one hundred and twenty yards off he saw me, and I had to snap him quickly. Swing- went his neck, and away he gal- loped with his swift
. Through the heart of Patagonia. Natural history. SOUTHWARD HO! 31. hollow, and, as we rode through this, I told my companions to ride on and threw them my cabresto (leading--r6pe of a horse). I slid off the horse and crawled up the hill. Upon the bare face of it was a thicket of poison-bush, and into this 1 ultimately made my way. The sentinel guanaco was there above me, stretching out his long neck, and every now and then giving his high neighing laugh. When one hundred and twenty yards off he saw me, and I had to snap him quickly. Swing- went his neck, and away he gal- loped with his swift, uneven gait. I thought I had missed him, whfen, to my delight, he began to slacken speed, and finally lay down in an ungainly attitude, his long neck crooked in a curve in front of him. I crawled nearer, and up he got and was off again. I ran down to my horse and mounted, and Macdonald let Tom, my hound, loose. We galloped the guanaco up. He was very sick indeed, and inside of three hundred yards Tom pulled him down again. The Mauser bullet had hit him two inches behind the shoulder about half way down the body. It had not come out. How he managed to get so far I cannot understand. We then went onwards, and saw by the way several herds of guanaco. I did not shoot any more, however, as they were uncommonly tame, and there was, of course, mutton at the estancia. We reached the spot on the hills above the puma's kill, low thorn bushes, vast mountain and blue sea, but no sign of the puma was to be found. These animals will often travel four or five leagues after a kill. By the way, when you fire at a guanaco they will sway their heads downwards with an odd sort of ducking motion. Not one individual but a whole herd will do this at any unaccustomed sound. The effect is most curious. While at Bahia Camerones our party was completed. We FREDERICK BARCKHAUSEN. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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