CHAPTER III.

THE RIO CHICO.

Breaking up of the Camp. -- An Idle Day. -- A Rash Start. -- A Dilemma. -- Alone on the Pampa. -- Reunion. -- The Kau or Toldo. -- The Domestic Interior. -- The Indian Tribes. -- Three Races. -- Order of the March. -- The Hunt. -- Indian Game Law. -- Tehuelche Cookery. -- Basaltic Hills. -- An Indian Festival. -- My First Tehuelche Ball. -- Mrs. Orkeke's Spill. -- Fording Rio Chico. -- A Battle. -- Death of Cuastro. -- Dangerous Times. -- Chilian Conspiracy. -- Obsidian Plain and Pass. -- First Ostrich Eggs. -- Amakaken. -- Lifting the Boulder. -- The Devil's Country. -- God's Hill. -- Condors and Dinner. -- Sunrise on the Cordillera. -- The Plague Herald. -- Gelgel Aik. -- Escape from Matrimony. -- Téle. -- Eyes of the Desert. -- Preparations for War. -- Another Fight. -- Water Tigers. -- Indian Bravoes. -- Iron Ores. -- Ship Rock. -- Perch Fishing. -- Appley-kaik. -- Casimiro's Escape. -- Arrival at Henno 62