At Home with the Patagonians: A Year's Wanderings Over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio NegroJ. Murray, 1873 - 340 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... Saddles and Bridles- Silversmiths - Manufacture of Mantles - Women's Work - Diet and Cookery - Smoking - Card Playing - Game of Ball - Cere- monies at Birth - Childhood - Marriage - Funeral Rites - Reli- gion - Demons and Doctors ...
... Saddles and Bridles- Silversmiths - Manufacture of Mantles - Women's Work - Diet and Cookery - Smoking - Card Playing - Game of Ball - Cere- monies at Birth - Childhood - Marriage - Funeral Rites - Reli- gion - Demons and Doctors ...
Pagina 13
... saddle - bags contained my kit and neces- saries , consisting of a couple of shirts and a jersey or two , a few silk handkerchiefs , and soap , lucifer matches , writing materials , fishing lines and hooks , quinine and caustic , and a ...
... saddle - bags contained my kit and neces- saries , consisting of a couple of shirts and a jersey or two , a few silk handkerchiefs , and soap , lucifer matches , writing materials , fishing lines and hooks , quinine and caustic , and a ...
Pagina 14
... saddles , and the cavalcade , con- sisting of Gallegos , myself , one regular soldier , three irregu- lars or ... saddle - bags , and strewing the beach with tortillas ( cakes ) and coffee , with which his no doubt provident and ...
... saddles , and the cavalcade , con- sisting of Gallegos , myself , one regular soldier , three irregu- lars or ... saddle - bags , and strewing the beach with tortillas ( cakes ) and coffee , with which his no doubt provident and ...
Pagina 15
... saddle and laughed at the scene ; but as the others could not catch the horse , he gave us a proof of his dexterity with the lazo . After this little diversion we pursued our course along the beach as far as Cape Negro , where the ...
... saddle and laughed at the scene ; but as the others could not catch the horse , he gave us a proof of his dexterity with the lazo . After this little diversion we pursued our course along the beach as far as Cape Negro , where the ...
Pagina 20
... saddle . This was José Marinero , one of the hybrids , who had succeeded in lazoing a guanaco , at which he appeared intensely delighted . The ' man , ' as I had previously supposed , proved imaginary . I regretted not being up at the ...
... saddle . This was José Marinero , one of the hybrids , who had succeeded in lazoing a guanaco , at which he appeared intensely delighted . The ' man , ' as I had previously supposed , proved imaginary . I regretted not being up at the ...
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amongst animals appeared Araucanian Araucanos Argentine Arica arrived bank barranca bolas Buenos Ayres bush cacique camp Casimiro cattle chase chasqui Cheoeque chief Chilians Chupat cliffs Cordillera crossed Crown 8vo deserters despatched distance dogs Edition encampment English Fcap feet fire formed Foyel friends Gallegos gallop gauchos grass Gualichu guanaco halted herds of guanaco hide Hinchel horses hunting Illustrations Indians island J'aria Jackechan journey killed lagoon lazo mantles Manzanas mares meat miles morning mounted night northern Oazy observed Orkeke Orkeke's ostrich Pampas party passed pasture Patagones Patagonia Picunches plain ponchos Portrait Post 8vo present proceeded puma Punta Arenas range of hills returned ride Rio Chico Rio Negro river rocks rode round saddle Santa Cruz schooner settlement side skin slope smoke snow soon Sourdo southern Straits stream Tankelow Tehuelches toldo travelling valley Vols whilst wild wind women wood Woodcuts
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Pagina iii - MUSTERS' (CAPT.) Patagonians; a Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro.