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The method of taking them, proves their extreme timidity, or rather their 
weakness. The hunters having driven the flock into a narrow passage, 
across which they have stretched a rope about four feet from the ground, 
with a number of pieces of linen or cloth hanging on it, the animals are so 
intimidated at these rags agitated by the wind, that they stop, and, cruwd- 
ing together in a heap, the hunters kill great numbers of them with the 
greatest ease. Butif there are any guanacos among the flock, which are 
less timid than the pacos, they leap over the rope with great agility. Tce 
example is immediately followed by the whole flock, und they esczpe tae 
stratagem of their pursuers. 
With respect to the domestic pacos, they are used to carry burdens, like 
the llamas; but, being smaller and weaker, they carry much less weight. 
They are likewise of a more stubborn nature; and, when once they rest 
with their load, they will suffer themselves to be cut to pieces sooner than 
rise. The Indians have never made use of the milk of these animals, as 
they have scarcely enough to supply their own young. The great profit 
derived from their wool has induced the Spaniards to endeavor to naturalize 
them in Europe. They have transported them into Spain, in hopes to raise 
the breed m that country; but, the climate not agreeing with their nature, 
not one of them lived. We are, nevertheless, persuaded that these animals, 
which are more valuable than the llamas, might thrive upon the European 
mountains, especially upon the Pyrenean. Those who brought them into 
Spain, did not consider that they can exist, even in Peru, only in the cold 
regions ; that is, on the top of the highest mountains; that they are 
never to be found in the valleys, and die if brought into hot countries ; 
that, consequently, in order to preserve them, they should be landed, not 
in Spain, but in Scotland, and even in Norway, and with greater certainty 
at the foot of the Pyrenean, Alpine, or other mountains, where they migh 
climb and attain to the region that most agrees with their nature 
THE THIBET MUSK? 
Tne size and general appearance of this animal resembles, in some 
degree, that of the roebuck. it is about three feet four inches in length, and 
about two feet eight inches in neight, from the top of the shoulders to the 
bottom of the fore feet; the ears are long and narrow, of a pale yellow in 
the inside, and deep brown outside. The general color of the body isa 
deep iron gray. The female is not so large as the male, has two teats, but 
is destitute of tusks. 
1 Moschus moschiferus, Linx. The genus Moschus has eight lower incisors, no upper 
ones ; two upper canines, no lower ones; twelve upper and twelve lower molars. Canines 
wanting altogether in the females; superior canines large in the males; ears long, point- 
ed; body slender ; feet with hoofs, separated and envelop.ng the last phalanges; tail very 
shor; two inguinal mamme. 
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