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A Naturalist’s Voyage Round the World

CHAPTER VI
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Falconer gives a curious account of the Indians driving troops of wild horses into it, and then by guarding the entrance keeping them secure.

(6/5.

Falconer's "Patagonia" page 70.) I have never heard of any other instance of table-land in a formation of quartz, and which, in the hill I examined, had neither cleavage nor stratification.

I was told that the rock of the "Corral" was white, and would strike fire.
We did not reach the posta on the Rio Tapalguen till after it was dark.

At supper, from something which was said, I was suddenly struck with horror at thinking that I was eating one of the favourite dishes of the country, namely, a half formed calf, long before its proper time of birth.


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