"It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an a…"

"The main difficulty in using either lazo or bolas, is to ride so well, as to be able at full speed, and while suddenl…"

"Some leagues above Rozario the western shore was bounded by perpendicular cliffs, which extended in a long line to be…"

"One of the best gifts of nature seems here wilfully thrown away, in so grand a channel of communication being left un…"

"I was amused by the dexterity with which a Gaucho forced a restive horse to swim a river. He stripped off his clothes…"

"They expressed, as was usual, unbounded astonishment at the globe being round, and could scarcely credit that a hole …"

"The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself; the greater …"

"The natural history of these islands is eminently curious, and well deserves attention. Most of the organic productio…"

"Of terrestrial mammals, there is only one which must be considered as indigenous, namely, a mouse (Mus Galapagoensis)…"

"I have not as yet noticed by far the most remarkable feature in the natural history of this archipelago; it is, that …"