-Guardia del Monte--Effects of cattle on
the Vegetation--Cardoon--Buenos Ayres--Corral where cattle
are slaughtered.

CHAPTER VII.

Excursion to St. Fe--Thistle Beds--Habits of the Bizcacha--
Little Owl--Saline streams--Level plains--Mastodon--St.
Fe--Change in landscape--Geology--Tooth of extinct Horse--
Relation of the Fossil and recent Quadrupeds of North and South
America--Effects of a great drought--Parana--Habits of the
Jaguar--Scissor-beak--Kingfisher, Parrot, and Scissor-tail--
Revolution--Buenos Ayres--State of Government.

CHAPTER VIII.

Excursion to Colonia del Sacramiento--Value of an Estancia--
Cattle, how counted--Singular breed of Oxen--Perforated
pebbles--Shepherd-dogs--Horses broken-in, Gauchos riding--
Character of Inhabitants--Rio Plata--Flocks of Butterflies--
Aeronaut Spiders--Phosphorescence of the Sea--Port Desire--
Guanaco--Port St. Julian--Geology of Patagonia--Fossil
gigantic Animal--Types of Organisation constant--Change in
the Zoology of America--Causes of Extinction.

CHAPTER IX.

Santa Cruz--Expedition up the River--Indians--Immense
streams of basaltic lava--Fragments not transported by the
river--Excavation of the valley--Condor, habits of--
Cordillera--Erratic boulders of great size--Indian relics--
Return to the ship--Falkland Islands--Wild horses, cattle,
rabbits--Wolf-like fox--Fire made of bones--Manner of
hunting wild cattle--Geology--Streams of stones--Scenes of
violence--Penguin--Geese--Eggs of Doris--Compound
animals.

CHAPTER X.

Tierra del Fuego, first arrival--Good Success Bay--An account
of the Fuegians on board--Interview with the savages--Scenery
of the forests--Cape Horn--Wigwam Cove--Miserable condition
of the savages--Famines--Cannibals--Matricide--Religious
feelings--Great Gale--Beagle Channel--Ponsonby Sound--
Build wigwams and settle the Fuegians--Bifurcation of the
Beagle Channel--Glaciers--Return to the Ship--Second visit
in the Ship to the Settlement--Equality of condition amongst
the natives.

CHAPTER XI.

Strait of Magellan--Port Famine--Ascent of Mount Tarn--
Forests--Edible fungus--Zoology--Great Seaweed--Leave
Tierra del Fuego--Climate--Fruit-trees and productions of the
southern coasts--Height of snow-line on the Cord