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SCENE OF SLAUGHTER ON AN ARGENTINE OSTRICH FARM |
A HUNTER OF THE LAND OF FIRE |
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| It is the peculiarity of the Argentine soil that while animal life imported from other climes may increase abundantly, it degenerates in quality. Thus, although ostriches have been bred in abundance, they are inferior to their progenitors. The ostriches being slaughtered on this farm will not yield many beautiful feathers, but provide the humbler article known as the plumero, or feather duster | A journey of three-fourths the length of the entire South American continent separates the Indians seen on the opposite page from this Ona hunter of Tierra del Fuego. He must have been photographed at the height of the short, hot summer, and he will be wrapped in furs when the snow is on the ground |