CHAPTER VIII.

GEYLUM TO PATAGONES.

A Sick Camp. -- Oerroè Volcanic Hill. -- Crimè's Deathbed. -- Graviel's Promotion. -- The Burning Ground. -- Hot Springs. -- Fighting the Gualichu. -- A Real Fight. -- A Soda Lake. -- Encampment at Telck. -- The Doctor comes to Grief. -- An Obliging Ostrich. -- Appointed Chasqui. -- Miseries of Pampa Life. -- A Bad Time. -- The Plains of Margensho. -- Casimiro's Distrust. -- Doctor and Sick Child. -- Duties of a Messenger. -- Departure of the Chasquis. -- Travelling Express. -- The Paved Pampas. -- An Ideal Bandit. -- Letter from the Chupat Colony. -- Trinita. -- Teneforo's Pampas. -- Champayo's Generosity. -- A Morning Drink. -- Departure from Trinita. -- Valchita. -- The Pig's-Road. -- Wild Horses. -- The Travesia. -- Limit of the Patagonian Fauna and Flora. -- First View of the Rio Negro. -- Sauce Blanco. -- The Guardia. -- San Xaviel. -- Approach to Patagones. -- Señor Murga. -- Welsh Hospitality. -- Among Friends at Last 247