A small and delicately-shaped fox, which is likewise very abundant, probably derives its entire support from these small animals.

The guanaco is also in his proper district, herds of fifty or a hundred were common; and, as I have stated, we saw one which must have contained at least five hundred.

The puma, with the condor and other carrion-hawks in its train, follows and preys upon these animals.

The footsteps of the puma were to be seen almost everywhere on the banks of the river; and the remains of several guanacos, with their necks dislocated and bones broken, showed how they had met their death.
APRIL 24, 1834.
Like the navigators of old when approaching an unknown land, we examined and watched for the most trivial sign of a change.

The drifted trunk of a tree, or a boulder of primitive rock, was hailed with joy, as if we had seen a forest growing on the flanks of the Cordillera.