, 1881-03-05

took passage started from Liverpool, but
by joining it at P~auillac they had q day
logger in England, and it 10 not improba-
BILE that LadyDixie as though to show that
at least one of the usages Of "ciyilisa ton
had not lost it's charm in her eyes. devoted
the time thus saved to lanother run with
the hounds. Her frat impressions Of Pata-
gonia were by no means satisfactory.
"Desolate and dreary it looked" she
writes "a succession of bare p~lateaus.
not q tree nor Q shrub visible Any where /;
q gray, shadowy country, which seemed
hardly of this world /; such q landsca pc
10 fact. as one might expect or reaching
some other planet" In no wise discouraged,
however. the party landed at Ssndy Point.
and provided with horsea, dogs. Q good
store OF ammunition. and four guides one. OF
whom, o Frenchmau, turned out to be an
excellent cook, they begun their trip
across Patagonia. They had, OF course. to
lead a sort of camp life-to disregard toll
%lettes, dine from u pot aa IY. and sleep
under tents with saddles for pillows. The
journey was enlivened by a wealth OF incl.
dent. Now the travellers are hunting the
guannco or the ostrich, now compelled to
dart with mufdsd heads through q prairie
ire, now experiencing the palpable diseom-
forts attending an earthquake. now tording
the Cabeza del Mare, now drawing rein 10
feast their eyes upon q landscape previous.
Iy unknown except TO the inhabitants OF
the country. Especially interesting,
perhaps, ia Lady DIxie's description OF an
Indian sncampnent upon which the party
CHANGED to light. The features OF the
pure-bred Tehuelche, we are told. are
extremely regular, and by no means
unpleasant to look at. The nose 10 gener-
ally aquiIine, the mouth is we'll shaped
and beautiied by the whi,est of teeth.
the expression of the eye 10 intelligent,
aud the form of the head conveys Q favour.
able idea OF their mental capacity. They
were formerly described as little less than
giants, but Lady Dixie. iu corr oboration OF
testimony already given on this point,
thinks that their average height does not
exceed CIT. They differ from most abort.
glnes by reason OF their easy going good
humour; while the meu, unlike the
women. are inert enough to go without
food for a time, rather thAn undergo
the slight fatigue OF q days hunt.
ing, 10 one respect they are not beyond
the sphere OF civilizatio q, displaying 40
they do q marked taste for q particular
alcoholic liquor. The guauacos and the
ostriches afforded good sport, but the deer
were SO tame that the party could not
ind it III their hearts to kill a second. and
the puma is too c0wardly to use the formi.
dable weapons with which nature has
provided it: In regard to food, the flesh
OF the guanaco, as served up by the French
man already mentioned, was generally lik.
ed indeed, II portion of it is termed the
''ne pIus ultra of pampa delicacies.n Even
tually, finding their store of provisions
running short, the party returned to Sandy.
POln', there to embark in q homeward
bound steamer. Lady Dixie, whose crav.
ing Tor a more vigorous emotion than that
afforded by the mon0tonous round of socie.
TVS so-caIled pleasures may we'll have been
satisfied by the earthquake and the ride
through the prairie fire, and who, it would
seem, is not unwilling to go to Patagonia
again. is as apt with the pen as with the
ride and rein. Her descriptions of scenery
arc very graphic, and the rest of the book
is written with much vsyoe and humour.
THR STATE TRIAL in Dublin ended, on tues.
day, in a failure. The evidence 40 to some
Of the traversers strikes Englishmsu az ~ifresis.
tible, and as to two of them was scarcely
denied, and the Judge. though carefully
impartial, charged strongly for conviction,