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hump on the back, and is found as a domestic animal in 

 Africa and Asia, but occasionally wild in the deserts be- 

 tween China and Hindoostan. The Dromedary is called the 

 Ship of the Desert, by the Arabs ; can be loaded with about 

 six hundred pounds, and travels about twenty miles a day. 



§ 164. The Llama (Camelus Llama) is of the size of 

 a small stag ; its fur rough, brownish yellow, black above, 

 white below, and lives in troops on the highest mountains 

 of Peru. The domestic Llama is employed in South 

 America as a beast of burden, and will carry one hundred 

 and fifty pounds. Its flesh is used as food, and its hide 

 as leather. 



\ 165. The Vicugna (Camelus Vicuna) is of the size 

 of a goat, covered with a very fine reddish-brown wool, 

 and found in large herds on the mountains of Chili. The 

 Vicugna cannot be tamed, but is taken every year in great 

 numbers, for the sake of the well-known Vicugna wool, 

 which is much used in manufactures. 



\ 166. The Musk-goat (Moschus moschifer) is of the 

 size of a goat, brown-colored, with a musk-bag near the 

 navel, almost as large as a hen's egg : it is found in the 

 forests and mountainous regions of Thibet and the south 

 of Siberia. The use of the Musk-goat consists in its 

 musk as medicine, its flesh as food, and its hide as leather. 



§ 167. The Pigmy Musk (Moschus pygmacus) is found 

 in Guinea and the East Indies. It is the smallest animal of 

 this Order, for its legs are only three inches long, and not 

 thicker than a quill. The back part of the body is brown, 

 and. the under part white. 



§ 168. The Moose Deer or Elk (Cervus Alces) is of the 

 size of a horse, and weighs upwards of 1,200 pounds : it is 

 brown-colored, has palmated horns, which weigh upwards 

 of fifty pounds, and is a native of the northern parts of 

 Europe, America, and Asia. The flesh of the Elk is 

 delicious food, and the skin of great value for clothing. 



§ 169. The Reindeer (Cervus Tarandus) is of the 

 size of the common stag, of a brownish color, has branch- 

 ed horns in both sexes, and is found in all the northern 

 parts of the world, sometimes in Kamtschatka, in herds 

 of a thousand or more. It cannot exist in warm climates, 



