330 MAMMALIA--PACO. 
These useful, and even necessary animals, are attended with no expense 
to their masters. For, as they are cloven footed, they do not require to be 
shod, nor do they require to be housed, as their wool supplies them with a 
warm covering. Satisfied with a small portion of vegetables and grass, 
they want neither corn nor hay to subsist upon. They are stiil more 
moderate in what tl.ey drink; as their mouths are contirually moistened 
with saliva, which they have in a greater quantity than any other animal. 
Ths natives hunt the guwanaco, which is the llama in a wild state, for the 
sake of its fleece. The dogs have much trouble to follow them; and, if 
they do not vome up with them before they gain the rocks, both the hunters 
and dogs are obliged to desist in their pursuit. 
The llama is in general a timid and docile animal. If teased, or ill 
treated, however, it becomes spiteful. Their mode of manifesting their 
anger is singular ; it consists in darting their saliva in considerable quantity 
upon the person who offends them. They will cover with it a surface of 
three or four yards in extent. In the weod cut, one of the animals is 
represented in the act of thus showing his displeasure. It has been assert- 
ed that the saliva is venomous, but this is an error. 

THE PACO! 
Sranps in much the same relation to the llama, that the ass does to the 
horse. He is smaller, and not so serviceable; but his fleece is more useful. 
His wool is fine and long, and is a sort of merchandise 1s valuable as silk. 
The natural color of the paco is that of a dried rose-leaf, which is so fixed 
that it undergoes no alteration under the hands of the manufacturers. 
They not only make good gloves and stockings of this woo, but also form 
it into quilts and carpets, which bring a higher price, and exceed those 
of the Levant. 
The pacos also resemble the llamas in their form, excepting that their 
legs are shorter, and their muzzle thicker and closer. They inhabit and 
climb over the highest parts of the mountains. The snow and ice seem 
rather agreeable than inconvenient to them. When wild, they keep 
together in flocks, and run very swift; and as soon as they perceive a 
stranger, they take flight, driving their young before them. The ancient 
monarchs of Peru rigorously prohibited the hunting of them, as they multi- 
ply but slowly. But since the arrival of the Spaniards in these parts, their 
number is greatly decreased, so that at present there are very few remain- 
ing. The flesh of these animals is not so good as that of the guanacos; 
and they are only sought after for their fleece, and the bezcar they produce. 

1 Auchenia vicunna, Lin. 
