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Title: Through the heart of Patagonia
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh, 1876-1922 Woodward, Arthur Smith, 1864-1944 Thomas, Oldfield, 1858- Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931 Moreno, Francisco Pascasio, 1852-1919 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938 Britten, James, 1846-1924
Subjects: Natural history -- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the wanderings of the herdsthrougfh the chant^inof seasons. But the flesh of the ostrich ismore palatable, and is, consequently, preferred when it can be pro-cured. They drink mate in large quantities, which, as has beenshown, is the universal habit on the pampas, where it is, in fact,indispensable, supplying, as it does, to a certain extent, the placeof vegetables, besides having the valuable quality of refreshingand invigorating in a quite extraordinary degree. They rarely smoke pure tobacco ; it is too precious. Theymix it with about 80 per cent, of califate-wood shavings. Once,when short of tobacco, I tried their mixture, and in truth there aremany worse smokes upon the English and American markets.The califate is certainly a little acrid, but burns with a very bluesmoke. I fancy one could get on tolerably well with this fakedtobacco, aided by a bit of imagination and a strong throat. For the most part the tribes use stone pipes of a very singular ■•• Nansens Esquimaux Life.
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