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THE LLAMA. 
with ribands, small streamers of coloured cloth? 
and little bells, and his ears with rings. 
The llama will carry from one hundre<l 
weight to one and a half. If overburdened 
and urged to proceed, or if it is deprived of 
the time for feeding, it lies down, uttering ^ 
complaining noise, and all the efforts of the 
driver to make it rise are unavailing ; it wdd 
perish rather than stir from the spot. 
At night these animals are usually allowed 
to feed ; they then lie down to rest themselves 
and ruminate. In lying down they kneel upo^ 
their fore legs and draw the hinder ones he' 
neath them, so that they are completely cO' 
vered by the body, while the neck and he»d 
are constantly kept upright. 
The vicugna, which is smaller than the 
llama, very much resembles the Europea*^ 
goat, only that its neck is longer, its he»d 
rounder, and that it has short erect ears, afld 
no beard. Notwithstanding the resemblane® 
