286 VICUNAS. 



LlB - IV - so neare the conversation of a man as this monkey doth. 

 They report so many things, which for feare I shoulde be 



thought to give credite to fables, or they should be so 

 c. 2; lib. x* esteemed, I thinke best to omitte, blessing the Author of 

 all creatures, in that hee would create a kinde of beaste 

 onely for the recreation and delight of man. Some report 

 that they carried these Micos or Monkies to Solomon from 

 the West Indies, but for my parte I holde it was from the 

 East Indies. 



CHAP. XL. Of Vicunas and Tarugas of Peru. 



Amongst the most remarkable things at the Indies of 

 Peru be the vicunas and sheepe of the countrie as they 

 call them, which are tractable beasts and of great profite. 

 The vicunas are wilde and the sheepe are tame. Some 

 thinke that the vicunas are those which Aristotle, Plinie, 

 and other Authors call Capreas, which are wilde goates, 

 and in truth they have some resemblance for the lightnes 

 they have in the woodes and mountaines, but yet they are 

 no goates, for the vicunas have no homes as those have 

 whereof Aristotle makes mention, neither are they the 

 goates of the East Indies, from whom they draw the bezoar 

 stone ; for if they be of that kinde it were a diverse one, 

 as in the race of dogges the mastiff is divers from the grey 

 hound. The vicunas of Peru are not those beasts which 

 carrie the bezoar stone in the Province of New Spaine, 

 which there they cal Bezaars, for that they are a kind 

 of stagges or deer; yet do I not know in any part of 

 the world there be any of these beasts, but in Peru and 

 in Chile, which are countries ioyning one to another. 

 These vicunas are greater than goates, and lesse then 

 calves. Their haire is of the colour of dried roses, some 

 what cleerer; they have no homes like stagges and goates. 



