48 GUANACA, OR VISCACHA. 
sarily fatal to them; for, if any where in 
Kurope, it must be obvious that Mont Blane 
should have been the range assigned them ! 
** The second species is the Guanaco, of 
which the individual here before you is com- 
monly called the Llama, and Brown Llama. 
The form, colour, and magnitude of the ani- 
mal are under your eyes; and I have only 
to add, that it is an animal which has been 
caught in its wild state, and which is not 
known to have been ever domesticated; and 
wholly unentitled, therefore, to the name of 
‘Lama’ (Cattle.) The occurrence of the 
Guanaco in the wild state, sometimes to the 
- discomfiture of the hunters of the Vigonia, 
(in the same manner that a whale or shark 
disturbs a herring-net,) is thus described 
by Captain Shelvocke :—‘ The Vigonias are 
often hunted after the following manner ;— 
Many Peruvian Indians gather together, and 
drive them into some narrow pass, across 
which they have previously extended cords 
about four feet from the ground, having bits 
of wood or cloth hanging to them at small 
distances. This so frightens them that they 
dare not pass, and they gather together in 
