Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1884 — A Terra Del Fuego Water-Scape. [ARTICLE]

A Terra Del Fuego Water-Scape.

While seated at their midday meal, they have before their eyes a "moving ■world of nature, such as may be found only iri tier wildest solitud e. All around the kelp-bed porpoises are plowing the water, now and then bounding up out of it ; while'seals and seabtters show their human-like heads, swimming among the weeds. Birds hover above, in such numbers as to darken the air; at intervals individual birds dart down and go under with a plunge that sends the spray aloft in showers, white as a snow-drift. Others

do their fishing seated on the water; for there are many different kinds of water-fowl here represented: gulls, shags, cormorants, gannets, noddies and petrels, with several species of anativie, among them the beautiful black-necked swan. Nor are they all sea-birds, or exclusively inhabitants of the water. Some of those wheeling in the air above are eagles, hawks and vultures—the last, the Chilian jota. Even the gigantic condor often extends its flight to the Land of Fire, whose mountains are but a continuation of the great Andean chain.— Front “The Land of Fire,” by Capt. Mayne Reid, in St. Nicholas.