feeing them thus to ftand. And yet fometiraes they do 



frowe amazed fodainely , and runne away with their 

 urthens, even to the higheft rockes, fo as not being a- 

 ble to come vnto them, they are conftraind to kil them 

 with anharquebuze, left they fhould loofe their barres 

 of filver, which they fometimes carry . The PAC os will 

 grpw reafty vnder their burdcns,ly ing downe,and will 

 endure to be cutte in a thoufand pecces before they wii 

 rife when this humor takes them : whereof the proverb 

 growes in Peru, tofaythatoneisreaftie, to fignifie^he 

 is obftinate- ; for that when any of thefe beafts is moo- 

 die , it is with excefle : the remedy they have is, to ftay 

 and fit downeby the/tatf, making much on him, vntill 

 thefitbepaft,and that he rife : and fometimes they arc 

 forced to ftay two or three houres. They have a difcafe 

 like to fcabbes, which they call Caracbe, whereof they 

 commonly die . The Antients had a remedy , to bury 

 them quicke that had the Carachc> left they (houlde in- 

 fed the reft, being a very contagious difeafe, and goes 

 from one to another. An Indian that hath one or two 

 of thefe fhecpe,is not reputed poore, for one of them is 

 woorth fixe or feavcn peeces of aflay, and more, accor 

 ding to the time and places* 



Of the Bcfyarsftone. C H A p. 42. 



THe Bezaars ftone is found in all thefe beafts before 

 mentioned, which are proper to Per 9 whereof 

 fome Authors of our time have written whole bookcs, 

 which they may reade that defire to have a more parti 

 cular knowledge. For theprefent fubie&itfliallbefuf- 

 ficien t to fty, that this ftone which they call Bczttr , is 

 found in the ftomackc and belly of this bcaft,foai times 



one 



