At Home with the Patagonians
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At Home with the Patagonians is presented as a year’s wanderings over untrodden ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro. The narrative is dedicated to a friend, F. W. Egerton, Royal Navy. The preface says that some readers who desire exact and scientific descriptions of the geography and geology of Patagonia will be disappointed, and urges as an apology that instruments could not be carried nor safely used under the circumstances.
The narrator visits the store of a man named Guillermo, where the talk turns on gold, and Don Guillermo shows some specimens obtained from the banks of a neighbouring stream. A pastime known by the name of ‘knucklebones’ is generally played by the boys, but their elders will not unfrequently join. The game of ball is confined to the young men, and is played with a lazo laid on the ground so as to form a ring about four yards in diameter.
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- George C. Musters
- Pages
- 153
- Language
- English
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- Travel Memoir
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