.LAMAS, OR SHEEP. 51 
fiesh; they wove its wool into cloth; and 
they employed it as a beast of burthen. 
‘In those places,’ says Zarate, a Spanish 
officer of government, in Peru, in the year 
1544, ‘where there is no snow, the natives 
want water, and to supply that want, 
they fill the skins of Sheep (Llamas) with 
water, and make other, living, Sheep 
carry them; for it must be remarked, 
that these Sheep of Peru are large enough 
to serve as beasts of burthen;’ to which 
he adds, that ‘ they can carry about a hun- 
dred pounds, or more, and that the Spa- 
niards ride on them; and they can go four 
or five leagues a-day. Their flesh,’ he sub- 
joins, ‘is as good as that of the fat Sheep 
of Castile;’ and, in his time, it was com- 
monly sold in the markets, in all those parts 
of Peru where the animal was kept.—‘ That,’ 
says he, ‘ was not the case when the Spa- 
niards first came; for when one Indian killed 
a Sheep, his neighbours came and took what 
they wanted ; and then another Indian killed 
a Sheep in his turn.’? In another sentence, 
Zarate might seem, at first sight, to autho- 
vise the belief, that the Peruvian Indians had 
