At home with the Patagonians.

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At home with the Patagonians.

Musters, George C.

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Travellers, explorers and pioneers

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Inspired by Darwin's account of his experienced in Patagonia, retired Royal Navy Commander Musters landed at Gregory Bay in 1869 and spent nearly a year crossing the steppes to the Rio Negro Río Negro or Rio Negro ("black river" in, respectively, Spanish and Portuguese) may refer to: Rivers

Rio Negro (Amazon), left tributary of the Amazon River
Río Negro (Argentina), Most important river of the Argentine Patagonia

. He lived and traveled with the Teheulche tribes, and described their lifestyle, rituals and hierarchies, and other cultural features that would become the mainstay of anthropology when that discipline was founded some years later. His account was first serialized in the Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. Standard. There is no index. Distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square Publishing.

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