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UNGULATES. 
Peruvians having domesticated one wild species only rather than two, and of their 
having gradually developed two races out of it—-the one large, strong, and suitable 
for the carriage of burdens, and the other smaller in size, but exceptional in its 
capacit} T for producing a quantity of useful wool. 
Alpacas are kept throughout the year in large herds on the high 
US8S ' plateaus of Bolivia and Southern Peru, and are only driven down to 
the villages at the shearing-season. The wool is of two kinds a longer and 
coarser, and a finer and shorter; the former being termed by the Pei u\ ians 
the alpaca (jV uat. size.) 
hanaska, and the latter kumbi. The Incas dyed both kinds with bright and 
lasting colours, and wove them into cloth and blankets; and alpaca wool has been 
introduced into England, the late Sir Titus Salt having established mills for its 
manufacture into cloth at Bradford. 
a Attempts have also been made to acclimatise the alpaca in Europe 
and Australia. A large herd was imported by a late Earl of Derby 
and established at Knowsley, and it was thought that these animals might be 
successfully introduced into the highlands of Scotland; but if the attempt was 
ever made, it had no permanent results. In Australia, after great difficulties in 
