THE LAND OF THE BAÑADOS.

On the Rio Dulce, near Loreto, in the dry season. Its actual bed, excavated at a recent date by a flood in soft clay, is not yet stable.

Photograph by the Author.

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LORETO: FARMING BY INUNDATION.

In the zone of the scrub, where the floods of the Rio Dulce spread. The interior delta of the Rio Dulce is one of the earliest centres of population in Argentina.

Photograph by the Author.