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"That's just what I want to arrive at," said Tom. "So now just tell me where we can get some good baccy and a glass of honest grog." The Patagonian repeated the words. "But I ask you!" said Tom. "But I ask you!" said the savage. "I tell you I'm a stranger here!" exclaimed Tom. "I tell you I'm a stranger here!" cried the savage. "Where do you come from then?" asked Tom.
In the description in a former chapter of our old peach trees in their blossoming time I mentioned the paroquets which occasionally visited us but had their breeding-place some distance away. This bird was one of the two common parrots of the district, the other larger species being the Patagonian parrot, Conarus patagonus, the Loro barranquero or Cliff Parrot of the natives.
It was late when I was picked up by a policeman and turned over to an Englishman, who kindly took me to his home for the night. The next morning I returned to the Aven and received a reprimand. A few days later we weighed anchor for Valparaiso. The sky was overcast and the sea was rolling high off the Patagonian coast, when we heard signal guns of distress.
The larger agouti, mara, or Patagonian cony twice the size of a hare are seen three or four together, hopping quickly one after the other in a straight line across the Pampas. It is somewhat like a hare, but has the external covering of a hog, its long coat concealing its little stump of a tail. It has also the hog's voracious appetite.
I think it right to state to your highness, that on mentioning this circumstance to an Englishman, who had been employed in the spermaceti whale fishery, he asserted that they really were birds, called Patagonian penguins, who had often deceived others by their martial appearance.
The cold being severe, the Admiral considered it desirable to steer towards the Line, and accordingly shaped a north-westerly course. On the 24th of January, 1521, a small island was discovered, to which the name of Saint Pablo was given, in memory of the hapless Patagonian, who, after being baptised, had shortly before died.
These are called lions and leopards because they look less like lions and leopards than anything else in the world; just as the harp seal is so called because he has a broad mark on his back, which doesn't look like a harp. Look at Toby, the Patagonian sea-lion here, who has a large pond and premises to himself.
From him Stephen learned all the particulars of Simeon's disappearance, though the last home letter dispatched by the poor fellow, on the eve of the guanaco hunt, covered the first part of the story. It appeared that Ponsonby had landed with a surveying party from the ship, one morning in January, on the Patagonian side of the Straits, and set out to botanize while his companions worked.
Mulrady, who was in front of the others, rode hastily back to report the approach of a troop of Indians. The news was received with very different feelings by Glenarvan and Thalcave. The Scotchman was glad of the chance of gleaning some information about his shipwrecked countryman, while the Patagonian hardly cared to encounter the nomadic Indians of the prairie, knowing their bandit propensities.
You understand him, my friends, he means a courageous man." "My father!" exclaimed Robert Grant, and, turning to Paganel, he asked what the Spanish was for, "Is it my father." "Es mio padre," replied the geographer. Immediately taking Thalcave's hands in his own, the boy said, in a soft tone: "Es mio padre." "Suo padre," replied the Patagonian, his face lighting up.
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