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and there they unlade and set vppe their tents, making LlB - IV - 

 fire, and dressing their meates, which is not painefull, 

 although it be a fleugmatike and slow manner of travell. 

 When there is but one daye s iourney, one of these sheepe 

 will beare eight arrobas in weight, or more, and beares this 

 burthen eight or tenne leagues in a day, as the poore 

 souldiers were wont to doe when they marched through 

 Peru. This kinde of cattell delights most in a cold aire, 

 and for this cause they live vpon the Sierra, and die in 

 the Llanos, by reason of the heate. Sometimes these sheepe 

 are all covered with ice and frost, and yet they continue 

 sound and well. The bare sheepe are pleasant to behold, 

 for they will stay vpon the way, raising vppe their neckes, 

 and will looke vpon any one very wistly, and so they 

 remaine a long time, without mooving or any show of 

 feare, which giveth occasion of laughter, seeing them thus 

 to stand. And yet sometimes they do growe amazed 

 sodainely, and runne away with their burthens, even to the 

 highest rockes, so as not being able to come vnto them, 

 they are constrained to kil them with an harquebuze, lest 

 they should loose their barres of silver, which they some 

 times carry. The Pacos will grow reasty vnder their 

 burdens, lying downe, and will endure to be cutte in a 

 thousand peeces before they wil rise when this humor takes 

 them ; whereof the proverb growes in Peru, to say that 

 one is reastie, to signifie he is obstinate ; for that when 

 any of these beasts is moodie, it is with excesse. The 

 remedy they have is, to stay and sit downe by the Paco, 

 making much on him, vntil the fit be past, and that he rise : 

 and sometimes they are forced to stay two or three houres. 

 They have a disease like to scabbes, which they call Ca- 

 raehe, 1 whereof they commonly die. The Antients had a 

 remedy, to bury them quicke that had the Carache, lest 



1 See also G. de /a Vega (ii, p. 378) respecting this disease among 

 the llamas. 



