The Camel Tribe and the Chevrotains 



309 



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lie says: "In places where there is no snow the 

 nalives 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 ai'e large enough to serve as beasts 

 of burden. They can carry about 100 lbs. or more, 

 and the Spainards 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 w'ool is very good and fine 

 . . . and the expense of their food is trifling, as a 

 handful of maize suffices them, and tliey can go four 

 or five days wdthout 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 jiarts 

 of Peru, which was not the case when the Spaniards 

 came first." 



The particularly offensive habit of spitting in 

 the face of people who may he obnoxious to it is 

 known to those "who are in the habit of seeinEf much of this animal. 



LLAMA. 



; l[iiger of the two domesticated forms descended from 

 the j,'nanaeo. 



THE CHEVROTAINS. 



Mention must be made, 

 before passing to the Pig 

 Tribe, of the smallest of hoofed 

 mammals, the Eoyal Antelope 

 excepted— the Cuevrotains. 

 These little animals are horn- 

 less, aird 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 

 loncf 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 Palaw-an, in 

 the Philippine group. One 

 species, the largest of the 

 group, occurs on the west 

 coast of Africa. 



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ALl'ACA. 

 A domesticated form, bred solely for its wool, which is 



[Al>u\lj.ui. 

 f a dark brown or black colour. 



