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LLAMA, 
His'Boofs are divided. His eyes are large, black* 
and sparkling. In the structure of his stomach* 
he has four ventricles, one of which is cellular. 
He has neither cutting nor canine teeth in his upper 
■jaw. His feet are armed behind with a sort of 
spur, which assists in supporting the ' animal on 
rugged, difficult ground. His wool or hair is long 
on his dank and belly, but short on his back, crup- 
per, and tail. 
His voice is a sort of neighing sound. Though 
naturally mild and inoffensive, he defends himself 
when tea zed or attacked, by butting, kicking, and 
squirting at his enemy, through a fissure in his 
upper lip, an acrid spittle, which inflames and 
blisters the skin. His motion is slow ; he bears 
up his head, and walks on with a grave, regular, 
majestic pace. He eats but little ; and scarce 
ever drinks. His food is the coarsest, and most 
ordinary plants. With the mildness, the llama 
possesses also the obstinacy of the camel. He 
cheerfully receives any load to which his strength 
is not unequal ; and if the place to which his bur- 
den is to be conveyed be known to him, proceeds 
to it without a guide. But when overloaded, or 
fatigued with travelling, he squats down on his 
belly, with his feet under him ; and no severity of 
blows will compel him to rise. Squeezing his 
testicles sometimes succeeds, when every other art 
lias been tried in vain. By continued abuse, the 
poor animal is sometimes driven to despair, and 
strikes bis head from side to side upon the ground, 
till he die. 
The female llama goes five or six months with 
young ; never produces more than one at a birth* 
and is furnished with two paps to suckle it. The 
young male becomes capable of procreation at the 
age of three years The term of his life never ex- 
tends much beyond fourteen years. 
