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another condor seizes its tongue and tears it out, and so they kill 

 and eat it without its mother being able to protect it. 



Chapter XXX 



Of the Animals Living in the District of This City, and Other 

 Matters. 



1740. The varieties of animals found here are: a small kind of 

 deer, and up in the Caracara Sierras, which are bare and cold, there 

 are vicunas and guanacos. These are animals unique in the world for 

 it is not known that they exist anywhere else than in the cold frozen 

 territories of Peru. They have dark gray wildcats as large as a 

 medium-sized dog ; the Indians call them oscoUos ; they are great 

 thieves and catch hens and other birds. There are others somewhat 

 smaller which the Indians call caraviuchaque ; these hunt poultry 

 at night. The females have a pouch in which they carry their young 

 after birth until they are grown, and they will let themselves be 

 killed rather than open this pouch for any purpose except to give 

 their young food. There are skunks (zorras; lit. foxes), called 

 anatuia by the Indians ; when they are pursued, they merely discharge 

 their urine and the stench is so pestilential that it forces their pur- 

 suers to give up. 



1741. There are very ferocious tigers which the Indians call oto- 

 rongos and which do much damage among the cattle. There are dark 

 gray lions called in the Indian language poma ; there are others 

 which are thought to be ounces, and are called lilisti ; they have a 

 head like a horse's, are very savage, and do great harm among all 

 sorts of stock and with human beings. They have many kinds of 

 bears, and some called ant bears. There are foxes like dogs which 

 do harm to sheep, goats, etc., and in the fields, eating corn in the 

 milk ; they are called atoc. The vizcachas are the color, size, and 

 shape of a rabbit ; the only difference is that they have a big tail. 

 There are cuyes, which are the rabbits of that country ; they have 

 famous ferrets, which the Indians call siqui. In the district of this 

 city there are many cattle and sheep ranches, farms with mares, 

 mules, and hogs; and especially in the Mojotorio (sic) Valleys, as 

 well as in others, for there are abundant supplies everywhere, it 

 contains llama ranches ; these are the sheeplike animals which carry 

 the wine, (es ; ?), corn, wheat, flour, wood, and all else required 

 for the provisioning of the city. And since in preceding chapters 

 I dealt with the temples of this noble and loyal city, and the college 

 and seminary there, I would add that the Archbishop of this city 



