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52. Llama. Ovis Peruana Hernandez, An. Mex. Wood*s voyage in Damplers, IV. g^» 
660. Marcgrave Brajil, 243. Camelus Glama- C. corpore lx* 
Huanucu-Llama. deLaet. 328. vi, topho pe&orali. Lin. fyfi : 91. 
Allo-camelus Scaiigeri. Ovis In- Camelus Peruvianus Gla??ia di&us 
dica Gefner quad. 149. RatiJyn. quad. 145. 
Llama. O'Valle chile. Churchill's Le Lama de Bujfon xiii. 16. 
Coll 44, 45. Guanaco ibid. Camelus pilis breviffimis. I-e 
Ciezas "Travels, 232. 233. Chameau de Perou . Briffon quad. 
Frezier s voy. 154* Feuillee obf. 34. 
Peru, 23. ' Ulloas voy. I. 478. Camelus fpurius Klein quad. 42. 
C. with an almoft even back, fmall head, fine black 
eyes, and very long neck, bending much, and very 
protuberant* near the junction with the body : in 
a tame Hate, with fmooth fhort hair *, in a wild ftate, 
with long coarfe hair ** ^ white, grey and ruffet, 
difpofed in fpots. According to Hernandez, yel- 
lowifh, with a black line from the head along the 
top of the back to the tail, and belly white. The 
fpotted may poffibly be the tame; the laft, the wild 
Llamas . The tail ihort: the height from four to 
four feet and a half: length, from the neck to the 
tail, fix feet. The carcafs, diverted of fkin and 
offals, according to the editor of Mr. Biron's voy¬ 
age, weighed 200 lb. in general the ill ape exactly 
refembles a camel, only it wanted the dorfal bunch. 
It is the camel of Peru and Chili; and before the 
arrival of the Spaniards , was the only beaft of bur¬ 
then known to the Indians . It is as mild, as gentle, 
and as tractable. We find, that before the intro- 
* 
* Matthiolus obferved, at the point of this protuberance, a fort 
of impollume, with matter diftilling from it. This I fufpe£t to be 
accidental; for the animal he faw was one fhewn in Germany. Vide 
Marcgrave, 243. No writer, who defcribed the Llama in its native 
country, mentions this circumftance. 
** Ulloa. I. 479. 
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