VICUGNA. 
ever, are more capable of supporting the rigours 
of frost and snow. They live in vast herds ; 
are very timid ; and excessively swift. The 
Guanacoes sometimes associate with them. 
The wool, which is very valuable, bolli in 
Chili and in Europe, is prodigiously fine, 
silky, and easily dyed. The flesh is said to be 
excellent eating. The Indians take this ani- 
mal in a strange manner. I'hey tie cords, 
with bits of wool or cloth hanging to tliem, 
above three or four feet from the ground, 
across the narrow passages of the mountains ; 
tlien, driving the Vicugnas towards them, the 
creatures are so terrified by the flutter of the 
rags, that they dare not approach them, but 
huddle together, and give the hunters an op- 
portunity of killing, with their slings, as manv 
as they please. 
Pennant asserts, tliat these animals arc not yet 
domesticated : forgeting, as it should seem, the 
remark which he had before made, that these 
animals, " in a tame state, varv in colour." 
Other authors have said, thiit thev are tamed 
-with great difficulty; which, we conceive, is 
the fad. 
They 
