50 GUANACO AND LLAMA. 
species, of which the original stock is either 
wholly lost, or has never yet discovered itself 
to view ? 
“‘ The relative places or haunts, as also the 
magnitudes, figures, and properties of the 
Vigonia and Guanaco, are plain, and can be 
the subject of no ambiguity whatever. The 
Vigonia is prepared to live in the highest 
habitable regions of the South American 
Andes, is the smallest animal of its kind, 
has the finest and warmest clothing, and has 
very different proportions, and a very differ- 
ent head and face from those of the Gua- 
naco; and the Guanaco, besides being dif- 
ferently figured, is much larger, less warm- 
ly covered, and more prepared to descend 
from the cold regions of the middle moun- 
tains into the heats of the plains below. 
But, as to the Llama, this is never seen ina , 
state of nature, either upon the plains, or 
upon the mountains. Is it, then, a va- 
riety of the Guanaco, produced by domesti- 
cation ? 
‘* When the Spaniards conquered Peru, 
they found the ‘ Llama’ in the possession — 
and daily use of the Indians. They ate its 
