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CAMEL. 
other than the congenerous Pacos. We find two 
animals fimilar to thefe, wild 5 the larger, or Gua- 
ntco , may be fuppofed to be a favage Llama ; the 
leffer, or Vicunna , to be the Pacos in a ftate of na¬ 
ture : the brief defcriptions we have left us of each, 
give us little room to doubt but that the difference 
of color and hair arifes only from culture. 
In a wild ftate they keep in great herds in the 
higheft and fteepeft parts of the hills •, and while 
they are feeding, one keeps- centry on the pinnacle 
of fome rock : if it perceives the approach of any 
one, it neighs •, the herd takes the alarm, and goes 
off with incredible fpeed. They out-run all dogs; 
fo there is no other way of killing them but with a 
gun. They are killed for the fake of their fiefii 
and their hair •, for the Indians weave the laft into 
cloth *• From the form of the parts of generation, 
in both fexes, no animal copulates with fuch diffi¬ 
culty : it is often the labor of a day, Antequam 
a Hum ipfum venereum incipiant , et abfolvant . 
53. Pacos. Pacos Hernandez , 663. Paco, Peruvianum lanigerujn, Pacos 
vicunna deLaet. 328. 329. Cieza. diftum. Raiijyn. quad . 147. 
233. . Camelus lamger. Klein, quad. 42, 
Ovis chilenlis. Marcgra-ve 244. Le Paco. deBuffonx. iii. 16. 
Wood's <voy. Dampier, iv. 95. Cameluspilisprolixis totocorpore 
Narborougb’s <voy. 32. veftitus, Le vigogne. BriJJonquad , 
Vicunna, Alpaques. Freziers 35. _ 
<voy. 1C3,154. Ulloa's <voy. I. 479. Camelus Pacos. C. tophisnullis, 
Camelus feu Camelo congener cjorpore lanato. Lin.fyji. 91. 
C. with the body covered with long and very fine 
wool, of the color of dried rofes, or a dull purple : 
the belly white: in a tame ftate : varies in color 2 
"* De laet. 320, Hernandez , 662. 
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