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GROUP OF PATAGONIAN INDIANS IN FRONT OF THEIR FAMILY "TOLDO"
| The aborigines of the cool and temperate region of Patagonia are physically a finer people than any of the other South American Indians. Two of the men are holding bolas, that ingenious Argentine contrivance for bringing down horses or cattle at distances. It consists of a short length of rope weighted at the ends with balls of stone, and when flung dextrously it twists round the legs of the animal, bringing it to the ground |