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UNGULATES. 



Peruvians having domesticated one wild species only rather than two, and of their 

 having gradually developed two races out of it — the one large, strong, and suitable 

 for the carriage of burdens, and the other smaller in size, but exceptional in its 

 capacity for producing a quantity of useful wool." 



Alpacas are kept throughout the year in large herds on the high 

 plateaus of Bolivia and Southern Peru, and are only driven down to 

 the villages at the shearing-season. The wool is of two kinds — a longer and 

 coarser, and a finer and shorter; the former being termed by the Peruvians 



Uses. 





the alpaca (^ liat. size.) 



hanasJca, and the latter kurnbi. The Incas dyed both kinds with bright and 

 lasting colours, and wove them into cloth and blankets ; and alpaca wool has been 

 introduced into England, the late Sir Titus Salt having established mills for its 

 manufacture into cloth at Bradford. 



Attempts have also been made to acclimatise the alpaca in Europe 



and Australia. A large herd was imported by a late Eaid of Derby 



and established at Knowsley, and it was thought that these animals might be 



successfully introduced into the highlands of Scotland ; but if the attempt was 



ever made, it had no permanent results. In Australia, after great difficulties in 



