Geese, myriads of, 75; prey of panther, 195; beautiful colors of wild, 207; two varieties of wild, 207; good sport, 207; favorite breeding places of, 208 Gente Grande Bay, rich pastures of, 126; introduction and spread of sheep raising in, 126 _et seq._ Glyptodons, fossil remains of, 201 Gold, first discoveries of, on Patagonian coast, 1-5; sailors wrecked at Cape Virgin, 4; story of, 5; bearing banks of Cape Horn region, 7; rich finds of, at New Island, 16 _et seq._; at Port Pantaloons, 17; marvellous quality of, at Sloggett Bay, 20; peculiar difficulties of mining in Sloggett Bay, 21; on New Year's Island, 150; found in Welsh colony, 178; traces of, at Lake Argentine, 278 Gold diggings, story of, 2-4, 7; at Cape Virgin worked out, 10; further explorations, 10; at Paramo, richness of, 12 _et seq._; supply renewed after storms and spring tides, 13; ore found in a bit of drift rock, 22; no quartz veins in Cape Horn region, 22; miners at work between Gallegos and Cape Virgin, 283; dust obtained at Punta Arenas and Ushuaia, 297 Gnats (_see_ Punkies). Grand Chaco forests of the Argentine, 228 Greenwood, Mr. W. H., 193 Grey, Mr. H., Yankee merchant, 30 Grubb, Mr. W. Balbrooke, school teacher at Keppel Island, 88 Guanaco, hunted, 31; red-haired, 51; modified camel, 64, 75; how hunted by Onas, 129; first view of, 184; habits of, 184; description of, 184 _et seq._; Darwin's observations of, 185, 186; curious habits of, 185, 186, 189; wallowing places of, 187; methods of self-defence, 187; vast herds of, 188; sense of smell and curiosity of, 188, 195; sure footed, 189; pleasing pets when young, 189; flesh good eating, 190; mainstay of Indian, 190; hides valuable, 190; price of skins of, 190; medicinal quality of ball in stomach of, 190; the staple food of panther, 195; beautiful fur of, 293; skins used for beds, 294; price of skins of, 294 Gulf of St. George, 293 Gulls of Cape Horn, 75; tiny species off Staten Island, 141; called Cape Horn pigeon, 208 _Guy Mannering_ wrecked off Staten Island, 144 H Hamilton, James, D.D., _Memoir of Richard Williams_, by, 84; John, 215; sheep raiser in Patagonia, 280 Hansen, Harry, gold prospector, 15 Hermit Island, gold-bearing banks on, 7; a few Yahgans left on, 72, 78 Hidugalahgoon, matrimonial difficulties of, 94 Hope, Point, in Alaska, 77 Horn, Cape, gold-bearing banks on, 7; first view of mine camp at, 9; miners of, 24; labyrinthian channels of region of, 25; metropolis of, 27; archipelago, 47; story of aborigines of, 47 _et seq._; mission, 79; region, snow storms every month in the year, 91, 125; pigeons, species of gull, 208; beauty of pigeons, 209; Indians of, eat penguins, 209 Horse meat, great delicacy to Onas and Tehuelches, 129 Hospitality, unbounded, in the Argentine pampas and Patagonia ranches, 256 Hudson, Mr. W. H., author of _Naturalist in La Plata_,186