HUNTING THE LLAMA. 



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LLAMA. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



HUNTING THE LLAMA. 



i APT. GEORGE SHELVOCKE, rm 

 ' Englishman, who sailed round the 

 world in 1719-22, thus describes the 

 llamas which he saw at Arica in 



" For the carriage of the guana the people at 

 Arica generally use that sort of little camels 

 which the Indians of Peru call llamas ; the 

 Chilese, chilihneque ; and the Spaniards, cameras de la tierra, or 

 na*ive sheep. The heads of these animals are small in proportion 



