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tempering the exceffiveheate.This wooll hath the like 

 vcrtue when it is made in quiltes , and therefore fbmc 

 vfe it to that end, for the trial! they have made thereof. 

 They fay moreover, that this vvooll or coverings made 

 thereof, is phificall for other indifpofitions , as for the 

 govvt: yet doe I not know that they have made any 

 certaine triall thereof.The flefh of thefe Vicugncs is not 

 good, although the Indians catc it, and drie it.For the 

 effe&s of Phyficke, I will fay what I have feene vppon 

 the Sierre of Peru, comming one night into a Tambo or 

 Inne ? being much afflicted with paine in mineeies, 

 . thinking they would fallout, (the which dooth com. 

 mealy happen in thofe partcs , for that they pafTe tho- 

 rowphces covered with fnow , which is the caufeof 

 this accident. Being troubled with this paine, and out 

 of patience,there came 'mlndiait woman which faid to 

 me, Father, lay this to thine eics, and thou fhalt be cu 

 red, it was a peece of the flefli ^Vicngnes newly killed 

 & all bloody. I vfed this medicine,&prefently the pain 

 ceafed,and foone after went quite away. Befides thefc 

 Chacos which is the moft common manner of hunting 

 at the Indies , they have vfed another more private to 

 take them, which is, that comming necre, they do cafl 

 certaine lines with plummets of lead, which intanglc 

 their legges,(b as they cannot runne,and by this means 

 they take the Vicugne. The chiefe rcafon why this bcaft 

 is cfteemed, is, by reafbn of the Befyrs ftone they findc 

 in them, whereof we will intreate heercafter . There 

 ^^^ is another kinde of beafts , which they call Tarugucs, 



which likewife are wilde , and more nimble than the 

 Vicugnes . They are greater of body, and more horc. 

 They have fbft eares and hanging : they goenot in 

 troups as the Vicugnts. I have not feene them but alone, 



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