. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . uberent; upper lip cleft;neck slender; eyes large ; ears long, pointed, and moveable; feet terminated by two to-sfurnished with little crooked nails, with a callous sole; call lilies or the breast andknees ; tail short; two mammae. M A M M A L IA—L L A M A. 329 becomes entirely useless at fifteen. They are gentle and phlegmatic, anddo every thing with the greatest leisure and caution. When they stop ontheir journeys, they bend their knees very cautiously, in ord
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . uberent; upper lip cleft;neck slender; eyes large ; ears long, pointed, and moveable; feet terminated by two to-sfurnished with little crooked nails, with a callous sole; call lilies or the breast andknees ; tail short; two mammae. M A M M A L IA—L L A M A. 329 becomes entirely useless at fifteen. They are gentle and phlegmatic, anddo every thing with the greatest leisure and caution. When they stop ontheir journeys, they bend their knees very cautiously, in order to lower theirbodies without disordering their load. As soon as they hear their driverwhistle, they rise up again with the same precaution, and proceed on theirjourney. They feed, as they go along, on the grass they meet with in theirway, but never eat in the night, making use of that time to ruminate. Thellama sleeps, like the camel, with its feet folded under its belly, and rumi-nates in that posture. When overloaded or fatigued, it falls on its belly, andwill not rise, though its driver strikes it with his utmost Peru, according to Gregory de Bolivar, is the true and native country ofthe llamas; they are conducted into other provinces, as New Spain, & this is rather for curiosity than utility. But in Peru, from Potosi toCaraccas, these animals are in great numbers, and make the chief richesof the Indians and Spaniards, who rear them. Their flesh is excellentfood; their hair, or rather wool, may be spun into beautiful clothing; andthey are capable of carrying heavy loads in the most rugged and dangerousways. The strongest of them will travel with two hundred or two hundredand fifty pounds weight on their backs. Their pace is but slow, and theirjourney is seldom above fifteen miles a day; but then they are sure, anddescend precipices, and find footing among the most craggy rocks, whereeven men can scarcely accompany them. They commonly travel for fivedays tog
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