CHAPTER XXI.

CABO NEGRO--HOME NEWS--CIVILISATION AGAIN--OUR DISREPUTABLE APPEARANCE--PUCHO MISSING--THE COMING OF PUCHO--PUCHO'S CHARACTERISTICS 239-251

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PUCHO _Title_

CROSSING THE CABEZA DEL MAR _Frontispiece_

A GUANACO ON THE LOOK-OUT _Page_ 1

THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN _To face page_ 40

"COLLECTING THE 'TROPILLA'--SADDLING UP" " 56

INDIAN CAMP " 64

GUANACOS " 96

THE LAST DOUBLE " 112

THE PUMA'S DEATH-SPRING " 146

RAVINE ENTRANCE TO THE CORDILLERAS " 162

THE "CLEOPATRA NEEDLES" " 166

ENCAMPMENT IN THE CORDILLERAS " 168

"THE WILD-HORSE GLEN" " 178

"WE WERE THE FIRST WHO EVER BURST ON TO THAT SILENT SEA" " 198