. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . ^5iyVfwiSS^4^ LLAMA,. CHAPTER XXI. HUNTING THE LLAMA. ^r-^-^^-^vAPT. GEORGE SHELVOCRE, rui ^11) Ar c^ Englishman, who sailed round the ^J*^^ \ world in 1719-22, thus describes the tSC^-^ Hamas which ae saw at Arica in For the carriage of the guana the people atArica generally use that sort of nttle camels^, ., ^^^^^ ^he Indians of Peru tall ilamas; the Chilese, chilihnegue; and the Spaniards, cameras de la tierra, ;e sneep. 1 he heads oi these animaJs are small m pieportion 114 HUNTING ADVENTURM. to their bodies, and are somewhat in shape between the

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. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . ^5iyVfwiSS^4^ LLAMA,. CHAPTER XXI. HUNTING THE LLAMA. ^r-^-^^-^vAPT. GEORGE SHELVOCRE, rui ^11) Ar c^ Englishman, who sailed round the ^J*^^ \ world in 1719-22, thus describes the tSC^-^ Hamas which ae saw at Arica in For the carriage of the guana the people atArica generally use that sort of nttle camels^, ., ^^^^^ ^he Indians of Peru tall ilamas; the Chilese, chilihnegue; and the Spaniards, cameras de la tierra, ;e sneep. 1 he heads oi these animaJs are small m pieportion 114 HUNTING ADVENTURM. to their bodies, and are somewhat in shape between the head ofthorse and that of a sheep, the upper lip being cleft, Lke that ofhare, through which they can spit to the distance of ten pacesRgainst any one who offends them; and if the spittle happens tofall on the face of a person, it causes a red, itchy spot. Theirnecks are long and concavely bent downwards, like that of a camel,which animal they greatly resemble, except in having no bunch ortheir backs, and in being much smaller. Their ordinary height isf

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