LLAMA. 
Pennant remarks, that " their botlies are 
covered with fat between the skin and the 
flesh, and they abound with Hood; both re- 
quisite to preserve wanrith m their frozen re- 
sidence/* The wild animals herd together in 
the highest and steepest parts of the hills; and^ 
while thev are feeding, one keeps sentry on 
the pinnacle of some rock : if it perceives the 
approach of any one, it neighs nearly like a 
horse; when the herd takes the alarm, and 
goes off with incredible speed. Thev ont-nia 
all dogs, so that there is no other wav of killing 
them than with a gun^ Their flesh is eaten ; 
with their skin, the Indians make soles to 
their shoes, and the Spaniards fine harnesses for 
their horses ; and their liair is wove into a rich- 
cloth. In a domestic state, thev are peculiarlv 
valuable: their food costs scarcelv anything;. 
their cloven feet prevents the necessity of shoe- 
ing ; and they are never saddleth The thick- 
ness of their long woolly hair prevents them 
from being incommoded by their burden, whicli 
the owner takes care not to place on the hack 
bone, well knowing that it would certainly 
kill them. 
