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 15
... slope of the wooded hills , below which on the other side lay Punta Arenas . A thick growth of shrubs covered the ground , but beautiful glades of luxuriant pasture were visible ; one of which opened just to the south of our camping ...
... slope of the wooded hills , below which on the other side lay Punta Arenas . A thick growth of shrubs covered the ground , but beautiful glades of luxuriant pasture were visible ; one of which opened just to the south of our camping ...
Pagina 16
... slopes , varying in depth from fifty to two or three feet , and in angle from an easy to an almost perpen- dicular descent , but often fissured by ravines or gullies , affording roads , down all of which , however , the native riders ...
... slopes , varying in depth from fifty to two or three feet , and in angle from an easy to an almost perpen- dicular descent , but often fissured by ravines or gullies , affording roads , down all of which , however , the native riders ...
Pagina 17
... slope , well out of the sweep of the wind . The lagoon was covered with black - necked swans and other wild fowl ; so , as soon as the horses had been unloaded and looked after , a fire lit , and all arrangements made 2 FROM THE STRAITS ...
... slope , well out of the sweep of the wind . The lagoon was covered with black - necked swans and other wild fowl ; so , as soon as the horses had been unloaded and looked after , a fire lit , and all arrangements made 2 FROM THE STRAITS ...
Pagina 21
... slope ascended from the valley , and a more undulating course was traversed until we reached a small caņon , which after a gradual descent dipped down between walls a hundred feet high , sloping up at either hand , and finishing in a ...
... slope ascended from the valley , and a more undulating course was traversed until we reached a small caņon , which after a gradual descent dipped down between walls a hundred feet high , sloping up at either hand , and finishing in a ...
Pagina 24
... slope of fifty feet and upwards de- scended to another terrace or plain of equal extent , and terminating in another fall , at the bottom of which lay the bed of the river ; it is fordable in the summer months , I believe , in many ...
... slope of fifty feet and upwards de- scended to another terrace or plain of equal extent , and terminating in another fall , at the bottom of which lay the bed of the river ; it is fordable in the summer months , I believe , in many ...
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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.