At home with the Patagonians

The narrator records a year living among the Tehuelche people while travelling across Patagonia from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro, combining a practical travel log with ethnographic observation. He describes routes and camps, hunting and horse-breaking, seasonal hardships, encounters with other indigenous groups and settlers, and ceremonies, marriage and funeral rites. Landscapes, wildlife, plants, and geological features receive frequent attention alongside practical notes on provisioning, transport, and social etiquette. Interspersed are maps, sketches, and practical advice for future travellers, yielding a vivid, ground-level portrait of daily life on the pampas and in foothills and river valleys.