. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. HEEBIVOEES: CAMELS AND LLAMAS. 37 streams in their course, they frequently serve as the highways of travel across the prairies. Though nat- urally timid, the Buffalo, when wounded, is furious, and dangerous to the hmiter. It is estimated that five hundred thousand of these animals are killed every year; many being slaughtered merely for sport, or per- haps for the sake of the tongue alone, but most of them for their skins, which make
. Natural history of animals. Containing brief descriptions of the animals figured on Tenney's Natural history tablets, but complete without the tablets. Zoology. HEEBIVOEES: CAMELS AND LLAMAS. 37 streams in their course, they frequently serve as the highways of travel across the prairies. Though nat- urally timid, the Buffalo, when wounded, is furious, and dangerous to the hmiter. It is estimated that five hundred thousand of these animals are killed every year; many being slaughtered merely for sport, or per- haps for the sake of the tongue alone, but most of them for their skins, which make the well-known buffalo-robes. CAMELS AND LLAMAS. The Camel is a native of Central and Southern Asia, and, from the earliest times, has rendered such impor-. Kg. 69. — Llama. tant services to the inhabitants of the East in carrying merchandise across the deserts, that it has been called the " Ship of the ; Its feet are fitted for trav- elling in the sand, its strength and power of endurance are very great, and it can live on the coarsest and most scanty vegetation, and travel for days without drinking. It can carry from five hundred to one thousand pounds, and kneels to receive and to be relieved of its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877; Tenney, Abby Amy (Gove) 1836-. New York, Scribner, Armstrong
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