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He says: “In places where there is no snow the 
natives want water, and to supply this they fill the 
skins of sheep with water, and make other living 
sheep carry them; for, it must be remarked, these 
sheep of Peru are large enough to serve as beasts 
of burden. They can carry about 100 lbs. or more, 
and the Spaniards used to ride them, and they 
would go four or five leagues a day. When they 
are weary, they lie down on the ground; and as 
there are no means of making them get up, either 
by beating or assisting them, the load must of 
necessity be taken off. When there is a man on 
one of them, if the beast be tired and urged to 
go on, he turns his head round and discharges his 
saliva, which has an unpleasant odour, into the rider’s 
face. These animals are of great use and profit to 
their masters, for their wool is very good and fine 
. and the expense of their food is trifling, as a 
handful of maize suffices them, and they can go four 
or five days without water. Their flesh is as good 
as that of the fat sheep of Castile. There are now 
public shambles for the sale of their flesh in all parts 
of Peru, which was not the case when the Spaniards 
came first.” 
The particularly offensive habit of spitting in ec ih had ee dascetea fore 
the face of people who may be obnoxious to it is = 
well known to those who are in the habit of seeing much of this animal. 
THE CHEVROTAINS ~* 
MENTION must be made, 
before passing to the Pig 
Tribe, of the smallest of hoofed 
mammals, the Royal Antelope 
excepted—theCHEVROTAINS. 
These little animals are horn- 
less, and intermediate in 
character between the Deer, 
Camels, and Pigs. The males 
have large canine teeth, like 
those of the Musk-deer, with 
which the Chevrotains have 
long been confounded. The 
range of these animals, of 
which there are five species 
known, extends from India 
and Ceylon, through the 
Malayan countries, as far east 
as the island of Palawan, in 
the Philippine group. One 
species, the largest of the 
ALPACA group, occurs on the west 
A domesticated form, bred solely for its wool, which is of a dark brown or black colour coast of Africa. 
