[19] I believe, as does Dr. Moreno, that a race of Indians, now extinct, once dwelled among the foothills of the Cordillera.
[20] This was a very lean buck; a fat doe is excellent.
[21] Louis von Plaaten Hallermund, of the Argentine Boundary Commission, almost reached Lake Buenos Aires from Lake Puerrydon about two years previously. Mr. Waag had completed the journey, but we did not know this.
[22] A guide who applied to me at Santa Cruz warned me that, if we went without him, we would have great difficulty at this point. He asked ten dollars a day for his services, which I, however, declined.
[23] This we came to understand very thoroughly at a later date, when we penetrated to the end of the long twisting arms of the lake.
[24] To hunt this swampy ground in shooting-boots is an unnecessary handicap, for the footing is so soft that one sinks to the knee in the worst places. A pair of string-shoes called "alpargatas" are the most useful and suitable footgear for this work, and the gain of their lightness is an added advantage.
[25] Where there are sheep, and consequently mutton is procurable, the guanaco is rarely hunted.
[26] This method has been referred to in another chapter.
[27] This chapter embodies a paper read before the Zoological Society of London on April 15, 1902, with some additional details.
[28] Two kinds of fish came under my observation, but I understood there were four.